The viral Chuvarbot 2.0 secures productisation grant from Kerala Startup Mission
Tevanova Techtrade has received a government grant for its Chuvarbot 2.0, a CNC-based wall painting robot. The startup plans to target commercial and political sectors in India, filling a niche for automated wall advertising.
Why it matters
This highlights the intersection of traditional manual labor and automation in the Indian startup ecosystem, specifically within the context of political campaigning and commercial branding.
In the weeks leading up to the 2026 Kerala Assembly elections, Tevanova Techtrade Private Limited was testing the prototype of its latest product, Chuvarbot 2.0, a CNC-based (Computer Numerical Control) wall painting machine. The name, a portmanteau of the words chuvar , meaning wall in Malayalam, and robot, encapsulates what the product set out to do — making wall paintings efficient.
The team led by CEO Shakkib Geethanjali and directors Dr Acsah Peter and Shibina Shyni oversaw the trials in Palakkad, where they reached out to families to spray paint their enclosures. They would clean and paint the walls to calibrate the machines and whitewash them once finished. Soon, they were approached by a few local politicians to paint walls as part of the election campaign of United Democratic Front’s candidate Ramesh Pisharody.
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