Dyna Robotics has raised $120m in a Series A funding round led by Robostrategy, CRV, and First Round Capital to accelerate development of its next-generation foundation model.

Additional investors include Salesforce Ventures, Nvidia’s NVentures, the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund, Samsung Next, and LG Technology Ventures.

Dyna Robotics plans to leverage this capital to bolster its research and engineering teams, focusing on enhancing general-purpose robots for commercial environments.

RoboStrategy CEO Andrew Kang said: “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.”

Since securing a $23.5m seed round in March, co-led by CRV and First Round Capital, Dyna Robotics launched DYNA-1. This robotic foundation model is claimed to have achieved a success rate of over 99% during 24-hour continuous operations.

Within six months of launching DYNA-1, the company reported that its robots had been operational for up to 16 hours daily in diverse settings such as hotels, restaurants, and gyms.

Dyna Robotics was co-founded by CEO Lindon Gao and York Yang, who previously sold Caper AI for $350m, alongside former DeepMind research scientist Jason Ma.

The US-based company is focused on creating general-purpose robots powered by an embodied AI foundation model. This model can adapt and self-improve across various environments while maintaining commercial-grade performance.

Gao said: “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 generalisation as our robot enters new environments; it simply works out of the box, with no additional data.”