Dyna Robotics

Dyna Robotics builds commercial robots for hospitality, logistics and factory operations. Its systems handle workflows such as folding and bagging laundry, sorting dishes into racks, and picking, inspecting and packing factory goods. The company develops both the robots and their embodied AI models, connecting task reasoning, dexterous manipulation and whole-body control. Its DYNA-2 World-Action Model predicts video and actions, using human activity footage to learn how the physical world changes before adapting that knowledge to robot tasks.

Dyna was founded by Lindon Gao, York Yang and Jason Ma; its 2025 funding announcement identified Gao as CEO. Gao and Yang previously built Caper AI’s retail smart carts, while Ma brought robotics research experience from DeepMind. Dyna’s model research uses pretraining on more than one million hours of human video, followed by local fine-tuning for robot hardware. Its deployment systems label task steps and failures, helping researchers select production examples for subsequent training.

In 2026, Dyna announced that Din Tai Fung was rolling out its robots across its restaurant network. The company reported that DYNA-2 produced 1,590 table-ready napkins per robot per 18-hour shift. It projected hundreds of deployed robots by the first half of 2027, including rollouts in hotels, logistics and data centers. Dyna closed a $120 million Series A in 2025 to expand research, infrastructure and commercialization.