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 saw on Facebook that Engineers Australia Victoria were moving into new premises. I saw the national CEO Steve Durkin at an event. He said I was...
I spent the summer working out of the Engineers Australia Victoria office with 20 university students. As a result they put me on the front cover of...
There comes a point when it's time to move on and seek out new challenges. On 31 December 2012, after a year of transition process, I handed over my...
The team created some new Aubot prototypes for some different kinds of robots. I took them to CES to show them off. Here I am with the robot...
I've noticed in contests I've been on the judging panel for that those who have an expertise in a field, are more critical of entries that cross...
Andy Warhol had an IQ of 86, Richard Branson has an IQ of 92, Muhammed Ali has an IQ of 78, and David Ogilvy had an IQ of 96. They are all below the...
I used to think I was brilliant. That I was different. That I was special. But then I realised a lot of people feel that way about themselves. And...
Two Saturdays ago, I was in Adelaide taking a late-night stroll by the beautiful, still, River Torrens with 3 member of my Robogals Global team -...
I’ve been giving a lot of virtual speaking gigs recently, so I created this short video to give a glimpse at what my virtual speeches are like.
I meet people all the time. In the past it was at entrepreneurship networking events when I was starting up Nudge. Then, it was at engineering...
