I received an award in New York City from the American Australian Association: the Next Generation Leadership Award. As a result, they're planting a tree in my honour in New York City. As part of my acceptance speech, the aubot team programmed a robot “Shazza” to have a conversation with me, bringing a bit of Australian humour to NYC. Check it out! (The conversation with Shazza begins at 3:30).
Forbes named me a world's top 50 woman in tech & 30 Under 30. I founded Robogals and Aipoly and was Young Australian of the Year 2012. Currently working on robotics company Aubot. I'm the youngest Member of the Order of Australia (AM) and I give speeches around the world.
I tweet @maritacheng and I'm on Facebook.
I did an interview at the beginning of the year about 24 hours in the life of me. I've copied and pasted the text here below. Enjoy! For robotics...
If you're over your university studies. If you're not looking forward to taking a week out of your life and attending a conference. If you don't...
"We would have bought your company." "You just got lucky because it was the right time for that kind of thing." "All the elements in the industry were...
Car company Škoda decided that I am "brilliant not famous", and created this content piece video to show the strength of their convictions. :P...
When I first started Robogals, the first thing I did was tell people about my vision and ask that they sign on to join. From that, I got a team of 3...
SBS came and filmed a short segment at the 2Mar Robotics office for their SBS Small Business Secrets program. It aired on 23 October. Watch the...
I've been named the ambassador for a Victorian Government education initiative called Tech Schools! Tech Schools are shared learning centres...
I was pretty chuffed and surprised to learn that I was named a top 50 women in tech globally by Forbes magazine! OMG! See the full list here. And my...
We launched Teleport Brain Control, so that people with a disability may attend school or work remotely via our telepresence robot Teleport,...
A lot of successful entrepreneurs dropped out of school (Richard Branson) or university (Bill Gates). But Ogilvy, who went on to become a famous ad...
