Dyna Robotics’ Wheeled Semihumanoid Taku Features 21 Degrees of Freedom in Its Upper Body and Object-Manipulation Capabilities

On October 24, 2026, humanoid.guide featured Dyna Robotics’ wheeled semihumanoid Taku. Taku is 170 centimeters tall and has 21 degrees of freedom in its upper body. Its grip force is listed as 10 kilograms.

Taku’s demonstrated tasks include handling and moving items, such as sorting products and putting dishes in and out. In the article’s review, it scored higher for object manipulation than for mobility. For tasks like these, it is important to assess not only mobility but also the gripping mechanism and performance on each task.

One notable aspect of Taku’s design is that it combines mobility and manipulation in a single robot, using a four-wheel steering base rather than legged locomotion and giving its upper body 21 degrees of freedom. The demonstrated tasks cited in the article also focus on grasping and placing objects, including sorting, putting dishes in and out, and folding clothes, as well as navigating around obstacles. humanoid.guide rated its object manipulation 3/5 and mobility 1/5, suggesting that, at least under the publication’s criteria, the robot’s manipulation capabilities are more prominent than its mobility. However, these are ratings by the publication, not figures for operating rates or task speed in real-world environments. In a previous article, we reported that Dyna Robotics had announced DYNA-2, a robot foundation model trained on more than 1 million hours of human video. Dyna Robotics announces robot foundation model trained on 1 million hours of human video. That article covered a model, while Taku, featured this time, is a physical robot equipped with wheels, arms and a gripping mechanism. The information provided does not confirm whether the two are technically connected or whether DYNA-2 is used on Taku. The model announcement therefore cannot, by itself, be taken as evidence of Taku’s capabilities. For potential workplace deployment, how the four-wheel base moves in areas where it must handle products or dishes is a separate issue from how well the two-pronged gripper can handle objects of different shapes or deformable fabrics. The tasks cited in the article require a combination of mobility, grasping and placement, but it does not provide success rates for individual tasks or continuous operating times. A grip-force specification of 10 kilograms alone does not indicate what types of objects the robot can handle or how reliably it can perform tasks. The next points to verify are the success rate of each action in real-world environments, task speed, operating time and deployment conditions. The description provided also does not explain the scale or test conditions behind the overall rating of 4/10, so the evaluation method would need to be confirmed before using it to compare Taku with other robots.