Facts

• Company: Donut Robotics
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: announced
• Capability focus: Generalist
• Website: https://www.donutrobotics.com/en

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Record / Articles
• Timeline / Research
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Cinnamon 1 is Donut Robotics humanoid robot concept for service, security and workplace tasks. Public reporting positions it as a Japanese-brand bipedal humanoid using gesture control and AI interaction.

Overview

Cinnamon 1 is Donut Robotics humanoid robot concept for service, security and workplace tasks. Public reporting positions it as a Japanese-brand bipedal humanoid using gesture control and AI interaction.

Market context

Cinnamon 1 is Donut Robotics' bipedal humanoid for industrial, service and security environments with gesture-based control.

• Target environment: Construction sites, factories, service facilities, security settings and structured indoor work environments.
• Workflow context: Bipedal mobility, gesture-controlled operation, perception, monitoring, assistance tasks and humanoid demonstrations.
• Customer context: Enterprise operators, facilities teams, security groups and partners evaluating a Japanese humanoid platform for practical work settings.
• Deployment model: Announced humanoid platform tied to Donut Robotics' AI and Silent Gesture Control work.
• Commercial maturity: Announced platform with public product positioning and limited evidence of scaled field deployment.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on mobility stability, manipulation capability, gesture-control reliability, safety, cost, support and task-level proof.
• Market position: Humanoid product direction from a company previously known for communication and service robots, with gesture control as the distinct public angle.
• Adjacent products: Casbot 02, Unitree G1, Menteebot, Pepper

Audience

Hospitality

Workflow

Bipedal mobility, gesture-controlled operation, perception, monitoring, assistance tasks and humanoid demonstrations.

Capability

generalist

Deployment environment

Construction sites, factories, service facilities, security settings and structured indoor work environments.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Hospitality
• Workflow: Bipedal mobility, gesture-controlled operation, perception, monitoring, assistance tasks and humanoid demonstrations.
• Capability: generalist
• Deployment environment: Construction sites, factories, service facilities, security settings and structured indoor work environments.

Specifications

• Height: 170 cm
• Weight: 70 kg
• Control Interface: Silent Gesture Control for gesture-based humanoid operation
• Vision Language Model: VLM that understands images and language
• Vision Language Action Model: Donut Robotics says it has begun work on a VLA system for language understanding through action
• Target Applications: Construction sites and factories
• Deployment Status: Initially intended for construction and factory use; Donut Robotics says it has already been introduced to major companies
• Runtime: 3 h
• Price: 18000000 JPY

Tags

• Peer Group: Humanoid service robot
• Workflow: Human-robot interaction
• Deployment Environment: Public interaction space
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Commercial product

Record / Articles

• 2026-01-21 - Article - Donut Robotics launches Cinnamon 1 humanoid

Timeline / Research

• 2026-01-21 - Product Launch - Donut Robotics unveils Cinnamon 1 humanoid robot - Donut Robotics announced Cinnamon 1 on January 21, 2026.

Comparable Systems

• Moya - DroidUp - Humanoid
• Realbotix F-Series - Realbotix - Humanoid
• A2 - AgiBot - Humanoid