Went to Utah and spoke at the Girl Scout National Convention in front of 6000 young women from all over America. Pretty insane! The panel was called, "Real Girls Change the World".
Rehearsals the day before...
And the real thing!
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.
Even if I know my chances of success are slim because I've been disorganised, have missed deadlines, have generally not followed my own rules for...
It’s so exciting seeing our robots make a difference in the lives of others. Six-year-old Freyja has a suppressed immune system, so coming into...
Today I asked myself, what do I want to have achieved in life by the time I’m 50? I wrote down all the major things I would be proud to have...
Why, excuses, rationale, justifications, explanations, verbal diarrhoea, reasons, etc. In the end, the myriad and infinite possibility of reasons...
"If you have too much on your plate, get a bigger plate." I first heard this when I was doing a leadership course in London in 2009. Everyone in the...
Engineers Australia and Engineering Heritage Australia decided to feature me as one of 100 Australian engineering leaders in their book, “Anything...
When I became the Young Australian of the Year, I was so excited. I had a glamorous ideal that my life would change completely! It changed a lot – I...
Being concerned with what people think about you makes you unable to contribute your best work to the world.
My last, large, in-person networking event I went to in Australia since before the pandemic was the 60th anniversary celebrations for the Australian of the...
From August 2009 to August 2011, I was the "Founder and Director of Robogals Global". Before that, my title was "Founder", and we hadn't created...
