Donut Robotics company profile
Donut Robotics develops humanoid robots and AI systems for construction, factory and service environments. Its Cinnamon 1 humanoid is presented as a biped robot for noisy worksites, using gesture understanding and human-robot interaction features where voice commands may be unreliable.
Facts
- Segment: Humanoid
- Country: Japan
- Founded: 2016
- Website: https://www.donutrobotics.com
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Products
- Facts
- Context / Market Position
- Events
- Team
- Context tags
- Record / Articles
- Sources
Summary
Donut Robotics develops humanoid robots and AI systems for construction, factory and service environments. Its Cinnamon 1 humanoid is presented as a biped robot for noisy worksites, using gesture understanding and human-robot interaction features where voice commands may be unreliable.
Market context
Represents Japan's new wave of humanoid entrants, transitioning from service robotics into general-purpose humanoid platforms with an emphasis on interaction and deployment. Proprietary humanoid platforms (Cinnamon series).
- Capability: humanoid interaction systems
- Capability: gesture-based control interfaces
- Capability: AI-driven perception and task execution
- Capability: service and security robotics workflows
- Strategic position: humanoid robotics platforms
- Strategic position: service and interaction robotics
- Strategic position: AI-driven human-robot communication
Facts
- Website: https://www.donutrobotics.com
- HQ: Tokyo, Japan
- Founded: 2016
- Segment: Humanoid
Japanese bipedal humanoid robot company
Donut Robotics develops Cinnamon 1, a bipedal humanoid robot using vision-language models, gesture control and emerging VLA capabilities.
- Target environment: Factories, construction sites, logistics hubs, industrial work areas and high-noise environments where voice control is limited.
- Deployment model: Humanoid robot product development around Cinnamon platforms and proprietary gesture or VLA control systems.
- Customer context: Industrial customers, logistics operators, construction users, researchers and organizations testing humanoid labour support.
- Workflow context: Gesture-controlled operation, visual-language understanding, physical task support, industrial assistance and human-robot coordination.
- Commercial maturity: Early commercial humanoid company with Cinnamon 1 positioned as a mass-produced robot. Scaling depends on fleet reliability, real customer adoption, service support, and repeatable task value beyond…
- Market position: Japanese humanoid builder focused on bipedal robots and non-voice control for practical work environments.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on task reliability, safety, manipulation performance, cost, production volume and proof of usefulness outside demonstrations.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes Japanese humanoids, bipedal robots, VLA-controlled robots and industrial service humanoids.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-01-21 - Product Launch - Donut Robotics unveils Cinnamon 1 humanoid robot - Donut Robotics announced Cinnamon 1 on January 21, 2026.
Team
- Taisuke Ono - Chief Executive Officer - Current operating leader for Donut Robotics' move into humanoid robotics through the Cinnamon 1 platform.
- Takafumi Okabe - Chief Engineer and Project Manager - Adds technical project leadership context for Donut Robotics' Cinnamon smart robot and Cinnamon 1 humanoid work.
- Takashi Matsui - Founder & CEO
- Jun Saigo - COO
Context tags
- Humanoid VLA interaction - Capability - Donut uses VLA models and VLMs for humanoid interaction.
- Humanoid robot OEM - Stack Layer - Donut builds complete humanoid robot systems.
- Industrial humanoid service robot builder - Peer Group - Donut Robotics builds Cinnamon 1 bipedal humanoid for industrial and service use.
- Gesture-controlled humanoid operation - Workflow - Donut Cinnamon 1 uses gesture-controlled humanoid operation.
- Public service humanoid interaction - Workflow - Donut robots engage in public-facing interaction.
- Humanoid builders - Peer Group - Donut builds full-size humanoid robot platforms.
- Bipedal locomotion - Capability - Donut Cinnamon 1 demonstrates bipedal locomotion.
- Humanoid service robot builder - Peer Group - Donut develops humanoid robots for service interaction.
- Service and public venues - Customer Environment - Donut robots are positioned for service and public venues.
- Factory automation cells - Customer Environment - Donut targets industrial and factory deployment settings.
Record / Articles
- 2026-01-21 - Donut Robotics launches Cinnamon 1 humanoid - Cinnamon 1 moves Donut Robotics from airport and service communication robots into bipedal humanoids, using an overseas OEM body while the company builds its ow…
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