Redwood City's DYNA Robotics is previewing Taku, an AI robot it says loads washers, folds towels and stocks shelves without help, claims that remain company assertions for now.

DYNA Robotics, based in Redwood City, California, is showing off a new semi-humanoid robot built to handle full workplace workflows on its own, ABC7 San Francisco reported.

The company says the machine, named Taku, can load washers, fold towels, chop vegetables, stock shelves and finish other tasks without a person stepping in. DYNA also says the same technology is already in use at hotels, restaurants and laundromats.

Those claims come from the firm and its chief executive. Independent confirmation of the full no-human workflow was not part of the published account.

CEO says the goal is robots people can actually use

DYNA Robotics CEO Lindon Gao cast the project as a push out of demo videos and into daily work.

"For the longest time I think robots usually sits behind the screen a lot of people get to watch the demos and it looks really cool but what DYNA does is were bringing robots into real life. we're making it commercially viable. we're making it so that humans can actually use robots to help them add value into day to day life,"

Gao’s pitch is straightforward: stop treating robots as screen spectacles and make them tools that free people up for higher-value work. The company ties that message to commercial use, not lab theater.

The name Taku comes from the Japanese word “Takumi,” which means master craftsman, according to the company.

Company lists hotels, restaurants and laundromats as early sites

DYNA says the technology is already working in hotels, restaurants and laundromats. The report did not name specific businesses, start dates or third-party reviews.

It also did not spell out product details a buyer would need, size, sensors, price, delivery timeline or how much human backup the “semi-humanoid” design still requires. The preview was presented as a company rollout of a machine meant to run complete task chains alone.

What the public record in the coverage does show is a clear product claim set: laundry loading, towel folding, vegetable chopping, shelf stocking and other workplace chores framed as full workflows without hands-on help.

That is the heart of the pitch. Robots leave the cool-video stage, enter real shops and free human workers for work that adds more value. Whether Taku meets that bar in daily service will turn on performance outside the company’s own description.

Promising machines are easy to announce. Paying customers and steady results are the test that counts.