Taku

Dyna Robotics

United States

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Taku is Dyna Robotics' semi-humanoid robot, introduced in September 2026 as the hardware half of the Dyna-2.1 physical agent. Dyna calls it semi-humanoid deliberately: above the waist Taku is built like a person, sized to an average human so that a worker's tracked wrists, elbows and chest land on poses the robot can reach and human demonstrations transfer directly, but below that a folding lower body drops and rises to reach low shelves and above head height, and the whole thing rides on a stable base with four steerable wheels rather than legs. The reasoning is that the workflows Dyna targets — commercial laundry rooms, hotel housekeeping, food service and warehouse fulfilment — need reach and manipulation precision far more than they need walking, so wheels buy stability and speed instead. Taku carries two 7-degree-of-freedom arms giving a 21-degree-of-freedom upper body, and its arms use low-ratio planetary actuators rather than the harmonic drives typical of conventional arms, allowing the higher speeds and accelerations needed to keep pace with a human. It senses through vision, tactile sensing and proprioception, and performs what Dyna calls loco-dexterous manipulation: coordinated whole-body movement combined with fine manipulation, reaching deep into a dryer drum, crouching to a bottom shelf or turning at the waist with a load. It is controlled by a stack running from a vision-language workflow orchestrator through the DYNA-2 world-action policy at roughly 5 Hz down to an RL-trained whole-body controller at 100 Hz, developed with thousands of simulated Takus in NVIDIA Isaac Sim. Dyna positions it as the first physical agent able to complete hour-long, non-linear workflows without a person standing by.