Dyna Robotics

A US embodied-foundation-model startup that gets robots running long, reliable shifts in real commercial settings.

Dyna Robotics was founded in 2024, headquartered in Redwood City, California. Co-founders Lindon Gao and York Yang had previously started Caper AI, a cashier-free smart shopping-cart company that sold to Instacart for $350 million; another co-founder, Jason Ma, was previously a research scientist at DeepMind. Its approach is to first get a robot to do one thing very reliably in a real commercial setting, such as folding towels or prepping food, then keep collecting data while deployed and use it to iterate on a more general model. It raised a $23.5 million seed round in March 2025 and a $120 million Series A in September, with participation from NVIDIA and Amazon; Bloomberg reported a valuation above $600 million. On models, it released DYNA-1 in June 2025, followed in August 2026 by DYNA-2, a world-action model pretrained on more than a million hours of first-person human video.

ExampleThe company reports that DYNA-1 ran a restaurant napkin-folding task continuously for 24 hours with no human intervention, at a 99.4% success rate.

Also called

Dyna, DYNA Robotics

Related

DYNA-1 · DYNA-2 · Physical Intelligence · World Action Model · Reward Model · Data Flywheel

Sources

Yahoo Finance: Dyna Robotics Raises $23.5 Million
Bloomberg: Dyna Robotics Raises $120 Million in Funding From Nvidia, Amazon
Dyna: DYNA-2

As of

2026-08