Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw endorses 'Chewie' Robot that converts Bengaluru’s Kitchen Waste into Nutrient-Rich Soil

Bengaluru’s battle with wet waste and overflowing landfills drew fresh attention this week as Biocon Chairperson, Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw backed a homegrown tech innovation designed to diminish the city’s garbage crisis.

Developed in Bengaluru,“Chewie” is a tech-driven kitchen appliance specifically designed to process domestic wet waste like vegetable peels, food scraps, and leftovers. 

The Core Capabilities of “Chewie”

This smart kitchen appliance powered by artificial intelligence, eats the kitchen waste and transforms it into nutrient-rich soil within hours.

When the waste is inserted in Chewie, it is shredded into pieces in the digestion chamber and gets recycled into rich- regen soil. 

The ongoing process is precisely visible in the vision system of the innovative kitchen appliance.

The nutrient-rich organic fertiliser generated by Chewie can further be used for plants as well as for organic farming.

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Reasons to Choose Chewie for your Home

A smart kitchen appliance like Chewie is an environment-friendly innovation which provides an apt solution for India in terms of combating the waste accumulation crisis in Indian landfills. 

Discarding the need to store decaying waste in bins, Chewie is also highly helpful eliminating the unpleasant odours and mess typically linked to household organic garbage.

The clip of the operating unit of Chewie went viral, increasing the visibility and awareness of the compact machine.

Mazumdar-Shaw’s endorsement aligns with her ongoing appeals for better civic infrastructure in Bengaluru.

Prior to this, she had also urged the Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP) and Deputy Chief Minister DK Shivakumar to take decisive action, emphasizing that public services upgradation could help Bengaluru emerge as a global city.

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Netizen’s reaction

Mazumdar-Shaw’s viral video received multiple comments on twitter, sparking a surge in interest, leading social media users to discuss the benefits and potential uses of the AI-powered innovative kitchen device.

One user commented: “Wow. Brilliant! I think he should make these large machines and sell it to municipalities. Municipalities must pay house owners for depositing waste as this waste can be converted to organic manure.”

Another user remarked, "Great idea. But let’s stop slapping AI on everything. Just talk about the use cases and benefits. That’d suffice."

Other responses were quite skeptical, questioning the application of artificial intelligence in the device.

"What role does AI play here?" a user questioned. Another wrote, "Wow it's a nice machine, but for god's sake stop using AI term everywhere, it's just a machine with sensors and moving parts, there is nothing AI about it."

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