Dyna put Taku to work in a live server room
An employee account with raw phone photos, no success rates.
Dyna Robotics took its Taku robot into one of its own live server rooms over a weekend to see how quickly it could pick up tasks it had never done. Anh-Quan Pham, who works at Dyna, posted the account with raw unedited phone photos and says Taku walked into a room it had never seen before and adapted off just a handful of quick demonstrations.
Taku walked into a room it had never seen before and adapted off just a handful of quick demonstrations.
The tasks he describes are the awkward ones. Folding low to reach the bottom racks. Sliding heavy servers into place. He says there was not a single scratch, and he was clearly aware of the stakes, writing that if Taku yanked the wrong cable he would probably have had a rough Monday.
What is actually underneath it
Dyna Robotics says it trained Taku's whole-body controller with large-scale GPU parallelized reinforcement learning in Isaac Sim (a simulator, with thousands of copies of the robot learning at once), optimized for precise loco-manipulation, meaning moving the base and the arms together as one coordinated motion rather than driving somewhere and then reaching.
That detail is what caught the field's attention more than the server racks did. Chris Paxton, responding to the controller post, pointed out that the technique is not just a humanoid thing.
Pham also frames this as a step up from earlier work. With Dyna-2, he says, the robots were chopping with a knife while blindfolded and in the dark. Now the company is putting the robot next to tens of thousands of dollars of fragile production gear where a single twitch ruins everything. Dyna previously posted an uncut hour of laundry folding on Dyna-2.1.
Shown versus claimed
This is an employee's story plus photos. There is no video, no success rate, no count of how many times a human had to step in, and no measure of how long the whole thing took. "A handful of quick demonstrations" is Pham's phrase, not a number. Doing delicate rack work in a live server room without breaking anything is a real claim, and right now the only evidence for it is the person who was in the room.
Even wheeled robots will benefit from the RL whole body control techniques developed for humanoids