A California-based robotics company has developed a robot that handles laundry tasks without human intervention.
Dyna Robotics' Dyna 2.1 automates the entire laundry workflow, from operating machines to folding and shelving finished towels. The robot is already performing these tasks in hotels, laundromats and restaurants, according to the company.
Source: DYNA Robotics
For laundry handling, the Dyna 2.1 can actively turn appliances on and reach into a dryer to retrieve clothing. It then places the items in a laundry basket or organizes towels by snapping, folding and sorting them into stacks based on size, before placing the finished stacks on shelves. Dyna says the robot completes these connected tasks without requesting human assistance.
The Dyna 2.1 consists of an upper torso and two arms fitted with either parallel-jaw grippers or dexterous hands, all mounted on a four-wheel, steerable base. The wheeled configuration provides mobility without the balancing requirements of a walking robot, while the upper body enables movements such as bending, lifting and reaching shelves at different heights.
A vision-language orchestrator directs complex workflows, while a whole-body controller synchronizes the robot’s movement and arm actions. The system is powered by Dyna 2, the company's proprietary world-action model, which Dyna says was trained on one million hours of human and robot data.
Dyna measures the robot’s performance using mean time between interventions (MTBI), or the amount of time it can complete connected tasks before requiring human assistance. Execution data, including decision traces and joint loads, is fed into a continuous improvement loop designed to increase the amount of work the robot can complete between interventions.
Watch the accompanying video to see the Dyna 2.1 perform laundry and towel-handling tasks.
