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.
What are your priorities? Work? Family? Relationship? Start-up? 9-5? Non-profit? Volunteering? Watching television? Reading blogs? Eating? Meetings? Don't...
What I say is important in my life = how I actually live my life
I flew from Cairns FNQ to Melbourne (a 3.5-hour flight!) for university. I didn’t have enough money to go to university. But I had faith in myself,...
I was thinking about my business idea and wondering when would be the right time to launch, if to launch and how. It was really doing my head in. I...
Wow! What a huge honour! I flew overseas in the wee hours of 27 January, and so the whole experience of being named Young Australian of the Year is...
I was thinking and plotting and planning my startup. When to begin. Was it too early? Was the market ready? Would I waste my time? Would I waste my...
If you tell people you are going to be at X location at X time, people take your word for that. If you’re not there, they decide that next time,...
When I was growing up, I read voraciously - for hours and hours a day. When I was in year 7, my mum even went to my parent-teacher interview and...
Why are people so critical when young people start non-profits? Time and time again, I hear people say, "there are enough non-profits out there....
This AI named me the 29th most influential woman in engineering from 2000-2020! It looked up frequency of my name being mentioned alongside an...