Cinnamon 1 Context

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.

Deployment environment

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

Specifications

  • 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
  • Price: 18000000 JPY
  • Height: 170 cm
  • Weight: 70 kg
  • Runtime: 3 h

Tags

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

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  • Ultra Magnus - Chengdu APLUX Intelligence Technology Ltd. - Anthropomorphic Biped
  • D1 - ZEALS - Semi Humanoid
  • Dex - Richtech Robotics - Semi Humanoid

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