Dyna Robotics
Robot foundation-model maker whose DYNA-1 robots work shifts in hotels, laundromats and gyms; $143.5M raised
Startup · Shipping · Robot foundation model · Redwood City, California, United States · Founded 2024 · dyna.co
- Founded 2024 · year not confirmed
- Funding $143.5M · details not disclosed
- Valuation · not disclosed
Profile
Dyna Robotics builds general-purpose robots run by its own embodied-AI foundation model, DYNA-1, which it says learns and improves from each customer deployment. Within its first year its robots were working up to sixteen hours a day in hotels, restaurants, laundromats and gyms, doing tasks such as folding laundry. Co-founders Lindon Gao and York Yang previously built Caper AI, the smart-cart company sold for $350M in 2021; co-founder Jason Ma is a former DeepMind research scientist. After a $23.5M seed in March 2025, it raised a $120M Series A in September 2025 led by RoboStrategy, CRV and First Round Capital, with NVIDIA, Amazon, Samsung and LG investment arms.
Notes On Aug 27, 2026 it filed a US trademark application for PHYSICAL AGENT (serial 50076393) covering humanoid robots, including ones that take customer orders and serve; this is a filing only, not a confirmed product. Trackers estimate a valuation of about $600M after the Series A.
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Leadership
- Lindon Gao, Co-founder & CEO
- York Yang, Co-founder
- Jason Ma, Co-founder & Chief Scientist
Appearances
Talks, panels and interviews by this company’s leaders, newest first. What a speaker said is their own claim, not our finding.
- USPublishedPodcast
Latent Space podcast, hosts swyx and Vibhu (recorded on site at Dyna)
“Dyna-2: General Purpose Physical Agents with Hour-Long Autonomy”
Jason Ma, Co-founder & Chief Scientist
Summary (From the transcript)
Ma said Din Tai Fung is Dyna's biggest scaled customer: its robots fold thousands of napkins a day across several US locations, and the chain has signed a much bigger contract and wants the robots to cut food next. He said Dyna has deployed tens of robots and aims for hundreds next year, and that Best Western uses its robots to fold towels. He described Dyna-2, a world-action model pre-trained on more than a million hours of human video, and a wheeled semi-humanoid for which Dyna is building its own actuators.
What Jason said (the speaker’s own claims, not our findings)
- Din Tai Fung is Dyna's biggest scaled customer; robots fold thousands of napkins per day across many US Din Tai Fung locations (Ma's claim).
- Din Tai Fung signed a much bigger contract and wants robots to cut food next (Ma's claim; contract size not disclosed).
- Dyna has deployed tens of robots; the goal for next year is hundreds (Ma's claim).
- Best Western is a customer; robots fold towels (Ma's claim).
- Dyna-2 was trained on more than one million hours of human data; a new task takes a couple of hours, and for some tasks tens of minutes, of robot data (Ma's claim; the host cited 45 minutes for a chopping task).
- Dyna is building its own actuators; the robot is a wheeled semi-humanoid with four waist degrees of freedom and about 100 action dimensions (Ma's claim).
- The laundry workflow demo runs a full loop of about an hour (Ma's claim).
- About 30-40% of staff work on hardware and around ten people on models; hiring is Bay Area only for now (Ma's claim).
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Flagship products
- DYNA-1 AI model
Single-weight robot foundation model; the company reports a 99%+ success rate over 24 hours of non-stop operation - Dyna-2 AI model
World-action model pre-trained on more than one million hours of human video (Aug 2026) - Dyna-2.1 AI model
Physical agent for end-to-end workflows built around Dyna-2 (Sep 2026)
Funding and valuation
Latest round
$120M
Series A · Sep 15, 2025
Led by RoboStrategy, CRV, First Round Capital
Also Salesforce Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA), Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Samsung Next, LG Technology Ventures.
Total raised
$143.5M
As of Sep 15, 2025
$23.5M seed (Mar 2025) plus $120M Series A (Sep 2025)
Hiring signals
- Open roles
- 26all roles
- Top location
- Redwood City · 77%20 of 26 roles
- Top role area
- AI & foundation models6 roles · 25% of 24 engineering & ops
Where the roles are · share of 26 open roles (all roles)
- Redwood City, California, US77%20 roles
- Customer Site23%6 roles
Locations are where the posting says the job is based, not where the robots are built. A posting that lists several sites is counted once, under the first.
Role mix · 24 engineering & ops roles
Show 1 more areas
Roles are sorted into a fixed list of areas by job title. Percentages are of engineering & ops roles. The other 2 open roles (finance, HR, legal, sales, facilities and similar) are in the total but not shown here.
Notable postings
- JobSenior role in AI & foundation models, one of the company's largest hiring areasAnnotation Operations ManagerRedwood City, California, US
- JobTypical role in Safety & certification, one of the company's largest hiring areasRobot Safety Operator - Walnut Creek, CACustomer Site
- JobSenior role in Other engineering & ops, one of the company's largest hiring areasStaff Robotics Systems Integration EngineerRedwood City, California, US
- JobSenior role in Software & infrastructure, one of the company's largest hiring areasSenior Software Engineer, Fleet ConnectivityRedwood City, California, US
- JobTypical role in Actuators & mechanical, one of the company's largest hiring areasHardware Support Engineer IIRedwood City, California, US
As of . Scope: all roles. Counts are our reading of public job postings, not company statements.
Scope note All open Dyna Robotics postings, read from its Ashby job board (jobs.ashbyhq.com/dyna-robotics).
Trademarks
1 name filed in the US since 2025 · last checked .
- PHYSICAL AGENT Filed, awaiting examinerUser-programmable humanoid robots, not configured.
Source: USPTO Trademark Search, matched on the company’s legal names. Rechecked on the 1st and 15th of each month. A filing shows intent to use a name in the US, not a launched product.
Competitors
Companies with overlapping products. Direct = same customers and same job; Adjacent = overlapping technology or market, different focus.
Walden Robotics
Adjacent competitorBoth sell robots running their own foundation models: Walden Robotics builds wheeled two-armed robots for factories, run by its own Large Behavior Models, while Dyna Robotics deploys robots running its own DYNA-1 foundation model in hotels, laundromats and gyms.
X Square Robot
Adjacent competitorBoth deploy robots running their own foundation models: X Square Robot builds the WALL-A foundation models and its own wheeled humanoids, while Dyna Robotics deploys robots running its own DYNA-1 foundation model in hotels, laundromats and gyms.
Recent news
Sources
- Dyna Robotics Raises $120 Million to Advance Robotic Foundation Models on the Path to Physical Artificial General Intelligence (PR Newswire) (Sep 15, 2025)
- Dyna Robotics closes $120M funding round to scale robotics foundation model (The Robot Report) (Sep 15, 2025)
Confidence: high.