"Follow your passions."
"Dream bigger."
"Focus."
"You can get there with hard work."
"Do what you love because then you'll never have to work a day in your life."
etc.
etc.
Everyone dolls out the same advice, because it's true.
The difference between someone who lives their dreams, and someone who doesn't, is that the former actually lives their lives uncompromisingly by those principles.
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 was in a hairdressers in Melbourne. I was 18. it was the first time I’d ever been to a hairdressers to get my hair cut in my life! It was at a...
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...
To my great surprise, I was awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) this year, announced on the Queen’s Birthday Weekend. This means I now...
In March this year, I was invited to the Australian Office in Taipei, Taiwan, to give a speech for International Women’s Day. During my 10-hour...
They’re cheap. They don’t always look very pretty. You can even get some with a yellow hue! (And even if you don’t, but you leave them for too long,...
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...
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...
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 -...
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,...
I love the process of getting an idea, making a plan around it, and then bringing it to the world. It usually involves a lot of emailing, fleshing...
