Japan Just Built a HouseBot You Control Without Speaking and It Changes Everything

Japan’s robotics scene just took a quiet but powerful step forward.

Donut Robotics has officially unveiled its first bipedal humanoid, Cinnamon 1, and instead of focusing on louder voices or bigger motors, the company went in the opposite direction. Silence.

Cinnamon 1 introduces what Donut Robotics calls Silent Gesture Control, a system that allows the humanoid to be guided using simple hand and finger movements rather than spoken commands. No yelling over machinery. No microphones struggling in echo filled rooms. Just intuitive, visual communication.