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CikguNova
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CikguNova — Multimodal AI Learning Platform

The home tutor every Malaysian child deserves.

Built in Penang by Rise Robotics Sdn. Bhd. A patient, voice-first Socratic AI learning & assessment web platform that speaks the four languages your child actually grows up with — delivered on any tablet, phone, or PC.

See how it works →
100% Web & PWA SaaS · KSSR Std 1–6 & KSSM Form 1–5 · View B2C & B2B2C licensing →
CikguNova — voice-first AI tutor on a study desk, with the Cikgu Nova persona on the display, KSSR Sains textbook and batik pencil case nearby
Q4 2026 Pilot
The problem parents know

Tuition can be expensive, single-lane, and on someone else's timetable.

A typical Malaysian family pays RM150–500 a month per subject. Centres are usually one language, one subject, one schedule. A class of thirty kids cannot pace itself to your child — and at 9pm, when the question finally comes, no tutor is there to answer it.

RM150–500
per subject, per month
1 of 30
in a typical class
1 language
in most sessions
Fixed slot
no help at 9pm when it matters
Figures from common KL/Penang centre rate cards, 2025.
Meet Cikgu Nova

Three things Cikgu Nova does that a once-a-week class cannot.

01 · Multilingual, properly

Speaks all four.

Hello, cikgu.
English
Selamat petang.
Bahasa Malaysia
你好，老师。
中文
வணக்கம்.
தமிழ்

English, Bahasa Malaysia, 中文, தமிழ். Switch mid-sentence — Cikgu Nova will follow.

02 · The actual textbook

Knows the syllabus.

KSSR Std 1–6 Sains, Matematik, BM, English
KSSM Form 1–5 Add Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology
SPM Form 5 Past-year papers, marking schemes

KSSR Standard 1–6 and KSSM Form 1–5, including SPM prep. Not a generic chatbot pretending to know.

03 · Voice-first

Patient, every time.

Take 7 · same question
"Okay, let's try once more. Where did we get stuck — was it the first step?"
voice

Voice-first. Never tired. Doesn't sigh, doesn't judge. Asks again the seventh time the same way as the first.

How it works

A day in the life — four panels.

  1. 01
    Malaysian child at her study desk with the CikguNova interactive AI tutor display, KSSR Sains Tahun 4 textbook open beside her
    Child says hi to Cikgu Nova
    "Cikgu, tolong saya buat homework Sains."
    — Bahasa Malaysia
  2. 02
    CikguNova interactive tutor display showing a hand-drawn water cycle diagram on its working canvas, with persona avatar and BM caption
    Cikgu Nova answers — voice + visual
    "Of course. Let's draw the water cycle together."
    — English · with diagram
  3. 03
    CikguNova interactive tutor interface with a patient persona expression, Socratic hint card on the display, child's hand visible nearby
    Cikgu Nova slows down when needed
    "Tak apa — let's go back. Apa kita kata pengewapan tadi?"
    — adaptive pacing
  4. 04
    phone in a parent's hand showing the CikguNova companion web app — today's session summary, strengths and weaknesses, suggestion from Cikgu Nova
    Parent gets the day's summary
    "Today: 22 min Science. Strong on diagrams, shaky on vocab."
    — companion app · 8.30pm
Pricing & Licensing · SaaS Platform

CikguNova — Multimodal AI Learning Platform.

Delivered 100% as a cloud-hosted web and progressive web application (PWA) on any existing tablet, phone, or PC. All plans are recurring software subscriptions and institutional licences — no proprietary hardware is manufactured or required.

KSSR Std 1–6 · KSSM Form 1–5 · EN / BM / 中文 / தமிழ்
01 · B2C · Family / Student Subscription

Home Subscription

RM 39 – RM 69 / month per student
Recurring monthly or annual software subscription · sold online directly to parents
  • Full KSSR Standard 1–6 & KSSM Form 1–5 curriculum (including SPM revision)
  • Quadrilingual Socratic voice tutoring (English, Bahasa Malaysia, 中文, தமிழ்)
  • Step-by-step handwritten worksheet photo guidance & interactive working canvas
  • Per-session parent mastery tracking, misconception detection & revision summaries
Join family pilot waitlist
02 · B2B2C · Tuition & Learning Centre Licence

Centre Licence

RM 15 / enrolled student / month
Minimum RM 300 / month per centre · Founding partner centre — Q1 2027 onboarding
  • Multi-student profiles bundled directly into tuition & enrichment centre cohorts
  • Tutor cohort dashboard with classroom learning diagnostics & topic heatmaps
  • Automated worksheet & assessment analytics across SK, SJKC, SJKT & SMK streams
  • Full KSSR Standard 1–6 & KSSM Form 1–5 syllabus retrieval and Socratic policy
Founding partner centre — Q1 2027 onboarding
03 · B2B2C · School & Institutional Campus Licence

School Campus Licence

RM 12,000 / year per campus
Covers up to 300 students · + RM 30 / student / year above 300
  • Site-wide annual SaaS deployment for private, international & national-type campuses
  • School-wide mastery analytics, cohort benchmarking & homework-support deployment
  • Dedicated teacher review portal with misconception alerts & intervention workflows
  • Ministry of Education (KSSR / KSSM / SPM) curriculum alignment reporting
Enquire for campus licensing
Founding partner centre — Q1 2027 onboarding
Run a supervised classroom or school pilot with our pedagogy team.

Built in Penang by Rise Robotics Sdn. Bhd. We invite tuition centres to become our founding partner centre for Q1 2027 onboarding, alongside structured pilots for private and international school campuses.

Founding partner centre — Q1 2027 onboarding
Behind CikguNova

Built in Penang, for Malaysian classrooms.

CikguNova is built in Penang by Rise Robotics Sdn. Bhd. We are looking for a founding partner tuition centre to test every change with real students.

Rise Robotics Sdn. Bhd.
PENANG · MY
Tuition centres: become our founding partner centre.
Rav Panchalingam — corporate headshot
Rav Panchalingam
CEO + product

15 years in software, and passionate about embedding AI into real-world objects. Designs, builds and ships the product.

Anjana Nagandran — corporate headshot
Anjana Nagandran
Head of Pedagogy & Educational AI

15 years teaching Malaysian students. Knows what a Form 3 Sains paper actually looks like at 11pm the night before.

News · 11 November 2026

Rise Robotics is now a Malaysia Digital (MD) Status company.

Rise Robotics Sdn. Bhd., the Penang company behind CikguNova, has been approved for Malaysia Digital (MD) Status. We'll be growing our engineering and product teams here in Penang, building in Malaysia for a global market.

CikguNova is one of three things we build, alongside Gotong, our multi-agent AI platform, and Rangkai, our interface between software and robots.

Illustration of the three things Rise Robotics builds: Gotong, an AI software factory; Rangkai, one interface for any robot; and CikguNova, an AI tutor for every child
Try the prototype

It's rough, it's honest, and it's already on the web.

Early prototype. Best on a tablet. Some flows are broken on purpose, some are broken by accident — we'd love to know which is which.

Request prototype access early access · runs in the browser as a PWA
Prototype preview
CikguNova prototype mid-lesson — child asks why ice floats on water, persona explains with a hand-drawn molecular diagram
v0.4 · in active development · expect rough edges
Waitlist

When CikguNova is ready for your child, we'll write to you.

We'll only email you when there's something real to show.