Spoke in Hong Kong at the the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) on 9 July. The WAGGGS is the largest voluntary organisation dedicated to girls and young women. They consist of ten million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts from 145 countries across the world, and their international conference happens every three years. My speech was live-translated into 7 languages simultaneously!
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.
BigSpeak named me one of top 10 female keynote speakers and one of their top 10 technology keynote speakers! I am utterly delighted! I only...
On this day, 10 years ago, I was named the "Young Australian of the Year", by the Prime Minister of Australia, in front of Parliament House, on...
We’re building a new robot Jevaroo, an 8-degree-of-freedom robot arm on a moveable platform, that can lift 1.32kg at full extension. I love this...
My cofounder in Aipoly is Italian, so we went to Italy to promote, due to popular demand, Aipoly’s availability in 7 languages - English, French,...
Telling people your plans too early doesn't make you less likely to achieve them. I know when I tell people what I plan to do the response I get...
Spoke at MIT's conference in Singapore, EmTech. Other speakers in my session spoke about autonomous robotic cargo ships, advances in drones and...
Aipoly aims to help the blind navigate the world. Our first application enables blind people to take a photo of their surroundings, and have it...
It’s so exciting seeing our robots make a difference in the lives of others. Six-year-old Freyja has a suppressed immune system, so coming into...
We filmed some more videos of our Jevaroo robot arm in action! Here it is demonstrating its load and lift capabilities. It can lift 2.32kg at the...
When you do something, do it whole and completely so that it's done to the best of your ability, then ship. Your attention to detail shows that you...
