Overview

This talk from Dyna Robotics’ co-founder York walked through how the company is building general-purpose manipulation robots that can handle complex, real-world tasks like folding napkins, chopping food, and assembling utensil sets—all without on-site retraining. He explained their research-to-deployment loop, where real customer use helps refine models, and showed off impressive zero-shot demos proving robustness and adaptability. York closed by highlighting ongoing challenges like model evaluation, learning from low-quality data, and scaling deployment, but emphasized the team’s mission to make robots genuinely useful in everyday environments.