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As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Dyna Robotics: 2 models, 1 deployment across 1 region, $143.5M raised. 11 sources back the record.
Overview
Redwood City-based startup building commercial-grade dexterous automation with low-cost robots. Founded by repeat entrepreneurs Lindon Gao and York Yang (who previously sold Caper AI to Instacart for $350M) alongside former Google DeepMind research scientist Jason Ma. Raised $144M total ($120M Series A in September 2025 led by Robostrategy and CRV).
On August 10, 2026, Dyna unveiled DYNA-2, a World-Action Model pre-trained on over 1 million hours of human egocentric video, demonstrating the first human-to-robot scaling law for robotics. Its wheeled dual-arm robot 'Sophy Swiftfold' is deployed at Monster Laundry in Sacramento — the first laundromat in North America to use a production AI folding robot.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 1 deployment on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Valuation of record
DEPLOY VERIFIEDPriced roundSeries A post-money
Key facts
Founded
Product
Deployment
Founders
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Financial stage
Focus
Technology
Latest model
Scaling law
Commercial robot
Din Tai Fung rollout
Fleet target
DYNA 2.1 Physical Agent launch (company-stated, Sep 2026)
Website (canonical)
Data & sources
Press releases
2
News coverage
1
Web sources
8
11 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (2)
View all models →Current platform
DYNA 2.1
Dyna Robotics semi-humanoid physical agent for long-horizon commercial workflows. Upper-torso dual-arm hardware on four steerable wheels, driven by a vision-language orchestrator and whole-body controller on the DYNA 2 / Dyna-2 world-action model. Company demo shows an uncut commercial laundry shift; PR says deployments include hotels, laundromats, and restaurants. Optimized for Mean Time Between Interventions (MTBI).
Current platform
Sophy Swiftfold
Dyna Robotics' wheeled dual-arm robot designed for commercial laundry folding and dexterous manipulation tasks. Named 'Sophy Swiftfold,' it is deployed at Monster Laundry in midtown Sacramento — the first laundromat in North America to use a production AI folding robot. The system runs on Dyna's foundation model (DYNA-1/DYNA-2) and can fold napkins and linens at a 99.4% success rate over 24-hour continuous operation, at roughly 60% of human throughput. Also deployed in hotels, restaurants, and gyms for tasks including folding, food preparation, and packaging.
Partnerships
Every company Dyna Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most-frequent partners
- 1Din Tai Fung1× joint
Most recent
- Dyna Robotics x Din Tai Fung2026-08-27with Din Tai Fungoperating
Dyna Robotics on the deployment map
View the global map1 verified deployment across 1 region, newest verified Oct 2025. Explore where Dyna Robotics's robots are operating, by place and type.
View the full Dyna Robotics deployment record →
Relationships
Current leadership (3)
- Lindon Gao Co-founder & CEOsecondary-verified
- York Yang Co-foundersecondary-verified
- Jason Ma Co-founder & CTOsecondary-verified
Founders (3)
- Lindon Gaocofounderfounded 2023-01-01
later founded Caper AI
- York Yangcofounderfounded 2023-01-01
- Jason Macofounderfounded 2023-01-01
Safety record
No incidents on record for Dyna Robotics.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Dyna Robotics1 deployment
Brains developed (2)
Recent coverage
Dyna Robotics in third-party press
Peer companies
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Locus Robotics5 models
- Samsung Electronics4 models
- Enabot3 models
- Infiforce3 models
- Rocsys3 models
Mentioned on (10)
Registry pages whose text names Dyna Robotics.
Companies (1)
Robots and products (2)
Deployments (2)
Sophy Swiftfold at Sacramento, California, USA, Sophy Swiftfold at Los Angeles, California, USA
People (3)
Financial state
- Total funding
- $143.5M
- Reporting basis
- aggregator_estimate
- Lifecycle stage
- growth
- Counterparty risk class
- moderate
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Partnerships
1 total · 1 operating
Every company Dyna Robotics has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.
Most recent
- Dyna Robotics x Din Tai Fung2026-08-27with Din Tai Fungoperating
Most-frequent partners
- 1Din Tai Fung1× joint
All 1 partnerships
open in the atlas →- Dyna Robotics x Din Tai FungwithDin Tai Fungdeployment2026-08-27operating
Funding rounds (2)
Dyna Robotics’s 2 disclosed rounds, $144M in total, oldest to newest.
- Series A2025-09-15
$120M · $720M post
Investors: RoboStrategy (lead), CRV (follow), First Round Capital (follow), NVentures (NVIDIA) (strategic), Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund (strategic), Salesforce Ventures (strategic), Samsung Next (strategic), LG Technology Ventures (strategic)
- Seed2025-03-25
$24M · $94M post
Investors: CRV (lead), First Round Capital (lead)
Timeline
Every recorded move in Dyna Robotics’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
Funding roundSeries A funding round
2025-09-15Series A raising $120000000
Funding roundSeed funding round
2025-03-25Seed raising $23500000
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Deployment recordedAug 27, 2026
Sophy Swiftfold at Los Angeles, California, USA
- Record createdMay 28, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedOct 1, 2025
Sophy Swiftfold at Sacramento, California, USA
Sources (11)
- https://dyna.co/
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dyna-robotics-unveils-dyna-1-the-first-commercial-ready-robot-foundation-model-offering-fully-autonomous-round-the-clock-dexterity-302441437.html
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dyna-robotics-raises-120-million-to-advance-robotic-foundation-models-on-the-path-to-physical-artificial-general-intelligence-302556817.html
- https://www.therobotreport.com/dyna-robotics-closes-120m-funding-round-to-scale-robotics-foundation-model/
- https://siliconangle.com/2025/04/29/dyna-robotics-debuts-dyna-1-foundation-model-powering-robots/
- https://roboticsandautomationnews.com/2025/09/16/dyna-robotics-raises-120-million-to-advance-robotic-foundation-models-on-path-to-physical-artificial-general-intelligence/94453/
- https://evertiq.com/news/2025-09-22-dyna-secures-120-million-to-advance-robotic-foundation-models
- https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dyna-robotics-launches-dyna-2-1-physical-agent-a-semi-humanoid-robot-that-completes-full-workflows-such-as-a-commercial-laundry-shift-302892411.html · 2026-09-29
- https://x.com/DynaRobotics/status/2104970523726033387 · 2026-09-29
- https://www.dyna.co/ · 2026-09-29
- https://www.dyna.co/dyna-2 · 2026-09-29
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Methodology: Verified · 11 sources (2 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-09
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High confidence
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Last reviewed 2026-10-09
Sources by quality tier
- 8
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 2
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for Dyna Robotics.Peer companies
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Locus Robotics5 models
- Samsung Electronics4 models
- Enabot3 models
- Infiforce3 models
- Rocsys3 models
In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Dyna Robotics from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
Dyna Robotics Launches New Robot for Full-Shift Work
Dyna Robotics has launched Dyna 2.1, a semi-humanoid robot designed to autonomously complete full commercial work such as laundry shifts, food preparation and data-center tasks.…
Watch: New humanoid robot unloads laundry and folds towels without human help
California-based robotics firm DYNA Robotics launched DYNA 2.1, a physical agent designed to do tasks...
From a Scaling Law to 1,590 Napkins a Day: A Saturday with Dyna Robotics
September 12, 2026 - Robotics Center of Silicon Valley, San Francisco For months, the robots folding napkins at Din Tai Fung did the hard part well and the easy part badly. The…
Dyna Robotics announces Din Tai Fung rollout crossing ROI threshold
Dyna Robotics announced that Din Tai Fung is rolling out Dyna robots across its restaurant network after crossing the ROI threshold. The company also has deployments across…
One Million Hours and One Demonstration: Two Days at Actuate 26
August 18-19, 2026 - Fort Mason, San Francisco On Tuesday morning, Jason Ma of Dyna Robotics described a foundation model pre-trained on one million hours of human video - roughly…
Dyna Robotics Introduces Dyna-2: A World-Action Model Pre-Trained on 1M Hours of Human Video
Dyna-1 robots already run in production in hotels, restaurants, and laundromats. Dyna-2 is pre-trained on 1M+ hours of human egocentric video, demonstrating the first true scaling…
Dyna Robotics introduces DYNA-2 robot model trained on human video
Dyna Robotics has introduced DYNA-2, a robotics foundation model trained on more than 1 million hours of egocentric human video, as the company seeks to reduce the amount of…
Dyna Robotics unveils DYNA-2 World-Action Model, demonstrating first true scaling law in robotics powered entirely by human data
Dyna Robotics announced DYNA-2, a world-action model pre-trained on 1M+ hours of human egocentric video, demonstrating the first human-to-robot scaling law for robotics. The model…
Dyna-2: A 1-Million-Hour Scaling Law for World-Action Models
Dyna Robotics' technical blog post detailing DYNA-2, their world-action model pre-trained on 1M+ hours of human video, with scaling laws, architecture details, and benchmark…
CES 2026: Dyna Robotics - Turning the Impossible Task of Folding into Reality
Dyna Robotics drew attention at CES 2026 with its laundry-folding robot, demonstrating autonomous folding capabilities that were previously considered impractical.
Dyna Robotics closes 20M funding round to scale robotics foundation model
Dyna Robotics raised 20M in Series A funding led by Robostrategy, CRV, and First Round Capital, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, NVIDIA NVentures, Amazon Industrial…
Dyna Robotics raises $120M for general-purpose robots
Dyna Robotics raised $120M Series A led by RoboStrategy, CRV, and First Round Capital. Co-founders Lindon Gao and York Yang previously built Caper AI (sold to Instacart for $350M).
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/dyna-robotics.md
- RSS feed: /companies/dyna-robotics/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/e8e5b8ae-9a98-4db9-a264-250301629063
- Revision history: /companies/dyna-robotics/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- DLR Institute of Robotics and Mechatronics6 models
- Locus Robotics5 models
- Samsung Electronics4 models
- Enabot3 models
- Infiforce3 models
- Rocsys3 models
Video
Dyna Robotics' DYNA-robot at CES 2026 demonstrating autonomous towel folding and textile handling. The demo highlights precise gripping, reliable cloth manipulation, and repeatable folding performance powered by vision,
We are excited to share that Dyna Robotics has raised $120 million in our Series A to push the frontier of general purpose high performance robots. This round
🦖 Dynasaur at CoRL 2025! 🦖 Our booth was buzzing as researchers put our robot, Dynasaur, to the test. In this timelapse, you’ll see Dynasaur fold continuous
Dyna Robotics is building commercial-grade AI robots designed for real-world automation at scale. In this video, we explore how DYNA-1 is transforming industrie
DYNA is building general-purpose robots that power the future of the physical economy. They build high-performance, general-purpose robots designed to scale acr
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Dyna Robotics is moving away from the VLA approach and choosing WAM—World Action Models—instead. How does Dr.Ma, Co-founder and Chief Scientist of Dyna Robotics
In December 2025, Jason Ma, Co-Founder of Dyna Robotics, presented at the Humanoids Summit Silicon Valley 2025, discussing the development of robust robot found
Dyna Robotics trains DYNA-2 on more than 1 million hours of human video The founders behind Caper AI and a former DeepMind researcher are betting that human vi
Dyna Robotics, a company specializing in foundational robotics models, recently completed a $120 million Series A funding round. The team believes that the ulti
Heat Index
Category contender75/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Dyna Robotics draws attention at the 91st percentile but verifies reality at the 58th percentile among service robots. Hype Gap +33.1, 14th widest among service robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Well-capitalized with $144M raised. Deployment footprint remains limited relative to category peers.
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Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
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Last computed: Oct 10, 2026