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.
This is how I spend the majority of my time: Hanging out with my mentor Dianne in her awesome workshop.
I gave a speech with my robot on stage at the Australian Water Association’s National Conference. It was super cool! My engineer Mack drove it from...
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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...
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Want to do something but you don't feel like it? Want to start a company but you feel the first step is too high and too hard? Want to get fit but...
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...
From September to December 2019, Al Jazeera English followed me around and filmed an update on all my projects: Robogals, Aipoly, Teleport, my...
