Redwood City, Calif. – September 29, 2026 -- DYNA Robotics has launched the DYNA 2.1 physical agent, a semi-humanoid robot capable of autonomously completing full commercial workflows -- including entire laundry shifts -- without human intervention. The system is now deployed in hotels, laundromats, and restaurants.
DYNA 2.1 runs on a proprietary model trained on one million hours of data
The robot's hardware pairs an upper torso with two arms -- compatible with parallel-jaw grippers or dexterous hands -- and four steerable wheels for mobility without toppling risk. It is powered by DYNA's world action model, DYNA 2, trained on a million hours of human and robot data, combined with a vision-language orchestrator for workflow reasoning and a whole-body controller that unifies driving, reaching, bending, and lifting into single fluid motions.
The robot completes an entire laundry shift end-to-end
In commercial laundry deployments, DYNA 2.1 loads and starts washers and dryers, reaches into the back of dryers to unload bulk towels, snaps and folds them, and sorts them into stacks by size. It places finished stacks on shelves at varying heights and autonomously corrects errors -- such as retrieving a dropped towel or abandoning a failed grasp -- without requesting human assistance.
DYNA measures success by Mean Time Between Interventions, not task completion rates
The company optimizes performance using Mean Time Between Interventions (MTBI), tracking how long the robot operates before a human must step in. Execution data -- from the reasoner's decision traces to the controller's joint loads -- feeds back into the system to extend operating minutes per intervention over time.
"Our customers need robots that complete an entire workflow for a full shift -- without human babysitters -- not just specific tasks," said Lindon Gao, co-founder and CEO of Dyna Robotics.
Co-founder Jason Ma said per-episode success rates on isolated tasks fail to reflect true commercial viability, arguing that continuous real-world shifts require thousands of sequential steps, which MTBI is designed to capture.
Beyond laundry, DYNA 2.1 is also positioned for food preparation and data center management workflows.