About 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.
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KOOKIE, Fantastic Failures, Young Heroes, Entrepreneurs and Total Girl
I featured in some magazine articles, books and on the tv recently. Here are some of them! This was KOOKIE magazine, where I was interviewed by...
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Eating through mosquito nets
The recurring problem with malaria is that mosquitoes have evolved to be immune to every vaccination ever invented against them. Humans too are...
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create magazine cover
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...
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Variety of media
Myself and Teleport (with my business partner Alberto Rizzoli appearing on Teleport) got a really awesome page 2-3 spread in The Age. It looks rad!...
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I have what Barack Obama and Steve Jobs have
Yeah, I know. I’m so cool, and I’m so lucky. I have DNA, flesh, blood and bones. Barack Obama and Steve Jobs are truly two icons of our time - men...
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Singularity University Reunion
Great to go back to San Francisco in August for our Singularity University’s Graduate Studies Program Reunion. So proud of my classmates, their...
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Losing focus
From an organisational point of view, it's better to focus on doing a small number of things right, than a large number of things wrong. In...
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ABC "Can You Hear Me?"
ABC made this short video, as part of a three-part series, about my Chinese culture and Brett Leary’s (founder of Virtual Songlines) Aboriginal...
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Press for Teleport Brain Control
Our brain control Teleport got some great press! It was covered by the Brisbane Times, New Atlas, Mashable, BBC and NowThis. Brisbane Times: Robot...
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Choose
When I was in my final year of high school, my family couldn't afford to send me to university, so I looked for scholarships that would enable me to...
