Bengaluru, Aug. 30 -- In a city battling mounting piles of wet waste and overflowing landfills, a homegrown innovation has caught the attention of one of Bengaluru's most respected voices. Biocon Chairperson Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw took to social media to praise an AI-powered robot called "Chewie", calling it a promising solution for managing the city's household garbage.

"Wow! Innovation for Bengaluru's home-produced wet garbage," she posted, sharing a video of the compact kitchen robot at work.

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Developed in Bengaluru, Chewie is an AI-driven waste-processing unit that digests kitchen wet waste - including food scraps, peels, and leftovers - and converts it into usable, nutrient-rich soil within hours. It eliminates t...