Dyna unveils Taku with Dyna-2.1 for end-to-end robot workflows

Dyna Robotics has introduced Taku, a semi-humanoid robot built around Dyna-2.1, its physical-agent system for automating complete workflows. The company presented an uncut, one-hour video of Taku operating in a hotel laundry room.

Taku moves between washers, dryers, a folding table and shelving, tracking the state of the work and choosing its next action as machine cycles finish. Dyna estimates that one laundry cycle spans about 79 steps. The company says Taku can recover from errors such as picking up two towels at once or being pulled off a machine control.

The robot has two seven-degree-of-freedom arms on a four-wheel steerable base. Its folding lower body lets it reach into machine drums, work at a table and access low or overhead shelves. Dyna has not published a total degree-of-freedom count for Taku in its launch report.

Dyna-2.1 uses three control layers. A vision-language orchestrator tracks the workflow and selects the next step. An improved DYNA-2 world-action policy produces whole-body target trajectories. A reinforcement-learning controller converts those targets into joint and wheel commands at 100 Hz. Dyna says it pretrained the policy on one million hours of human video mixed with robot-fleet data, using its Unified Robot Representation to describe human and robot motion in a shared format.

The system builds on Dyna's existing stationary deployments. Din Tai Fung is rolling out its robots for narrower food-service work, while Taku is intended to extend the approach to mobile, multi-step workflows. Dyna says its next milestone is to take Taku and Dyna-2.1 to customer sites and use deployment data to improve the system.

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