## Dyna Robotics Secures $120 Million Series A Funding to Advance General-Purpose Robots **News Title:** Dyna Robotics Raises $120 Million to Advance Robotic Foundation Models on the Path to Physical Artificial General Intelligence **Report Provider:** PR Newswire (Dyna Robotics) **Date:** September 15, 2025 **Key Information:** Dyna Robotics has announced the successful closure of a **$120 million Series A funding round**. This significant investment was led by **Robostrategy, CRV, and First Round Capital**, with additional participation from prominent investors including **Salesforce Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA's venture capital arm), the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Samsung Next, and LG Technology Ventures**. **Main Findings and Conclusions:** * **Breakthrough DYNA-1 Foundation Model:** In its first year, Dyna developed and released the DYNA-1 foundation model, a significant advancement in robotics. * **High Performance and Reliability:** The DYNA-1 model achieved a **99+% success rate in 24-hour non-stop operation**, demonstrating exceptional reliability and performance. * **Commercial Viability Proven:** Dyna has successfully proven the commercial viability of its robots through customer deployments across various industries. * **Path to Physical AGI:** The company's ultimate goal is to achieve **physical Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)**, and this funding will accelerate their progress towards this objective. **Key Statistics and Metrics:** * **Funding Amount:** $120 million (Series A) * **Success Rate:** 99+% in 24-hour non-stop operation (DYNA-1 model) * **Previous Funding:** $23.5 million (Seed round in March) * **Deployment Duration:** After six months, Dyna's robots were operating **sixteen hours a day** in hotels, restaurants, laundromats, and gyms. * **Caper AI Exit:** Dyna's co-founders previously sold Caper AI for **$350 million** in 2021. **Use of Funds:** The newly acquired capital will be strategically allocated to: * **Expand the team:** Grow its "world-class research and engineering team." * **Accelerate delivery:** Speed up the delivery of "production-ready general purpose robots powered by proprietary embodied AI foundation models." * **Scale deployments:** Increase the deployment of these robots across various industries. * **Develop next-generation foundation model:** Further advance their AI capabilities. **Significant Trends and Changes:** * **General-Purpose Robots:** Dyna is focused on creating **single-weight, general-purpose foundation models** capable of performing diverse daily tasks at a commercial scale across varied environments. This signifies a move towards more versatile and adaptable robots. * **Embodied AI:** The company is a leader in **embodied AI**, integrating AI foundation models directly into physical robots for real-world applications. * **Continuous Learning and Improvement:** Dyna's models are designed to **continuously improve with each customer deployment**, generating high-quality data and learning from "on-the-job" experience. This allows for rapid online learning and adaptation. * **Convergence of Forces:** Co-founder York Yang highlights a "once-in-a-generation opportunity" driven by the convergence of maturing AI breakthroughs, accelerating hardware development, and high labor demand. **Notable Statements:** * **Lindon Gao, co-founder and CEO:** "A strong foundation model is key to scalable distribution. Our models continuously improve with each customer deployment, generating high-quality data. We are observing true generalization as our robot enters new environments; it simply works out of the box, with no additional data." * **Jason Ma, co-founder:** "Our first principle is to design robot foundation models that attain both generalization and performance. Scalable real-world robot learning systems need to master and generalize many manipulation skills. To achieve the best performance on complex tasks, Dyna's foundation models are developed to enable general world understanding while learning from the models' own experience for rapid online learning." * **York Yang, co-founder:** "Right now, three forces are colliding at once: AI breakthroughs are maturing, hardware is accelerating, and the demand for labor has never been higher. That convergence has created a once-in-a-generation opportunity. Dyna has made rapid progress over 12 months and we believe our ultimate goal, achieving physical AGI, is not far off." **Investor Confidence:** Investors expressed strong confidence in Dyna's vision and execution: * **RoboStrategy:** Believes Dyna will be at the forefront of meeting the demand for robotic automation with their "state of the art general-purpose robot foundation model." * **CRV:** Emphasizes Dyna's position at the "forefront of embodied AI," combining generalization and commercial-level performance, and highlights the founders' "rare combination of proven entrepreneurial success, deep technical expertise, and the operational know-how to scale AI in the real world." * **First Round Capital:** Backs Dyna for tackling "massive problems" and pushing the boundaries of embodied AI with "unprecedented generalization and commercial-grade performance." **About Dyna Robotics:** Dyna Robotics develops general-purpose robots powered by a proprietary embodied AI foundation model. These robots are designed to generalize and self-improve across diverse environments with commercial-grade performance. The company was founded by repeat entrepreneurs Lindon Gao and York Yang, who previously exited Caper AI for $350 million, and former DeepMind research scientist Jason Ma. **News Identifiers:** * **Source:** PR Newswire * **URL:** `https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dyna-robotics-raises-120-million-to-advance-robotic-foundation-models-on-the-path-to-physical-artificial-general-intelligence-302556817.html` * **Keywords:** Dyna Robotics
Dyna Robotics Raises $120 Million to Advance Robotic Foundation Models on the Path to Physical Artificial General Intelligence
Read original at PR Newswire →In its first year, Dyna released its breakthrough DYNA-1 foundation model, achieved a 99+% success rate in 24-hour non-stop operation, and proved commercial viability through customer deployments. Dyna will use the latest funding round to expand its team, accelerate delivery of production-ready general purpose robots powered by proprietary embodied AI foundation models, and scale deployments across industries.
, /PRNewswire/ -- Dyna Robotics today announced it has closed a $120 million Series A funding round, led by Robostrategy, CRV, and First Round Capital, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA's venture capital arm), the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Samsung Next, and LG Technology Ventures.
The new capital will be used to expand its world-class research and engineering team and accelerate the development of its next-generation foundation model as the company works to deliver high performance general-purpose robots in commercial environments. DYNA Robotics' robot Dyna has made rapid progress since raising a $23.
5 million seed round in March, including launching its DYNA-1 model, a breakthrough robotics foundation model that pushed the performance of robots to a 99+% success rate in 24 hours of non-stop operation. After just six months, Dyna's robots were running sixteen hours a day at hotels, restaurants, laundromats, and gyms.
Dyna is the first to build a single-weight, general-purpose foundation model that can perform diverse daily tasks at commercial scale across varied environments. Its model has been deployed at multiple customer sites, supporting the model's generalization commercial viability and continuing to learn and improve rapidly from on-the-job experience.
"A strong foundation model is key to scalable distribution," said Lindon Gao, co-founder and CEO of Dyna Robotics. "Our models continuously improve with each customer deployment, generating high-quality data. We are observing true generalization as our robot enters new environments; it simply works out of the box, with no additional data."
"Our first principle is to design robot foundation models that attain both generalization and performance," said co-founder Jason Ma, a former DeepMind research scientist who has focused his career on developing foundation models for robotics. "Scalable real-world robot learning systems need to master and generalize many manipulation skills.
To achieve the best performance on complex tasks, Dyna's foundation models are developed to enable general world understanding while learning from the models' own experience for rapid online learning."Dyna co-founders Lindon Gao and York Yang teamed up with Ma after seeing the potential to advance AI through real-world applications first-hand while building Caper AI, which combined software and hardware to bring AI-powered smart carts to retailers worldwide.
Their product made rapid advancements as soon as it went into production, and the company exited in 2021 for $350 million.By combining their experience creating practical, production-ready AI with deep research expertise and building a world-class team of researchers and operators, they are building embodied AI robots that are useful for businesses now, using that "on-the-job" experience to build toward physical AGI."
Right now, three forces are colliding at once: AI breakthroughs are maturing, hardware is accelerating, and the demand for labor has never been higher. That convergence has created a once-in-a-generation opportunity," said co-founder York Yang. "Dyna has made rapid progress over 12 months and we believe our ultimate goal, achieving physical AGI, is not far off."
From the investors:RoboStrategy"Dyna's team and mission bridges research excellence and real world commercial applications. The demand for robotic automation spans almost every industry, and we believe Dyna will be at the forefront in meeting it with their state of the art general-purpose robot foundation model.
We're thrilled to co-lead this Series A and support the team's ambitious roadmap of driving mass adoption of general-purpose robots."— Andrew Kang, CEO, RoboStrategyCRV"Dyna Robotics is at the forefront of embodied AI, delivering foundation models that combine generalization and commercial-level performance.
We invested in the company from day one and are excited to double down on leading Dyna's Series A. Lindon, York, and Jason bring together the rare combination of proven entrepreneurial success, deep technical expertise, and the operational know-how to scale AI in the real world. We couldn't be more excited to back the best team positioned to lead the physical AGI revolution."
– Max Gazor, General Partner, CRVFirst Round Capital"At First Round, we back exceptional founders tackling massive problems, and Dyna Robotics checks every box. Their early results are remarkable. In just one year, Dyna has pushed the boundaries of embodied AI with unprecedented generalization and commercial-grade performance.
We're thrilled to lead their Seed and Series A to fuel Lindon, York, and Jason's vision to power the future of the physical economy."– Bill Trenchard, Partner, First Round CapitalAbout Dyna RoboticsDyna Robotics makes general-purpose robots powered by a proprietary embodied AI foundation model that generalizes and self-improves across varied environments with commercial-grade performance.
Dyna's robots have been deployed at customers across multiple industries. Dyna Robotics was founded by repeat founders Lindon Gao and York Yang, who sold Caper AI for $350 million, and former DeepMind research scientist Jason Ma. The company is backed by top investors, including CRV and First Round.
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