I finally graduated! Stoked to give the valedictory speech at my graduation. I received a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics) and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Melbourne. The first pic is of me and my mum, and the second is of a lectern towering before me!
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.
A robot friend suggested we go and get our nails painted by a robot! So we went and did that! The first time I saw a nail painting robot was at CES...
When I started Robogals, I thought going to schools and teaching girls robotics should get more to choose physics, chemistry and advanced maths;...
You don't need that much money. Just enough to pay the rent, utilities and food. My plan I created for myself post-uni when I was in 3rd year uni...
From June 13 - August 23, I am staying at NASA AMES Research Park, funded by Google, studying with 80 people from around the world in Singularity...
I visited Fetch Robotics as part of a field trip for a Stanford course I took. Fetch Robotics sold to Zebra Technologies for $290 million in 2021....
The recurring problem with malaria is that mosquitoes have evolved to be immune to every vaccination ever invented against them. Humans too are...
I find that many people my age are quite lost. They don't know what to do with their lives, they don't know what their dream job is, they don't know...
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...
I think it's important to have one person that says the final 'yes' to all the decisions in a start-up. That one person should be the visionary...
As the Cheshire Cat says, "if you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there." In my Engineering Analysis A class (an engineering...
