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

Price: Expected≈JPY18million (29Jan2026report);currentofficialquoteunconfirmed
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
Height: ≈170cm
Weight: ≈70kg
Runtime: ≈3h (29Jan2026reportedconfiguration)