Returning to my hometown Cairns is always relaxing. Returning to Cairns in winter is a luxury - because the weather is lovely, and not cold at all. Centacare have a program where they are mentoring 20 people in launching their companies. They invited me to give a public lecture to share my experiences and advice in starting a company. To promote the lecture, the Cairns Post featured me on the cover of their Weekend newspaper magazine.
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.
On 28 August 2016, I was invited to Taiwan by Foxconn to speak at the H.Spectrum by Yonglin Healthcare Startup Conference. I gave a 15-minute...
"We would have bought your company." "You just got lucky because it was the right time for that kind of thing." "All the elements in the industry were...
Just in the past 2.5 weeks, I've seen my productivity shoot through the roof, I have more energy and I feel great about myself (who wouldn't?) No,...
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...
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...
YAN was an amazing experience. I believe the more you put into something, the more you get out. And so I put in as much of me as I could, and I had an...
I was at West End watching “Dirty Dancing” the other night. In the foyer, there were t-shirts embossed with, “I carried a watermelon”, and “No one...
If you tell people you are going to be at X location at X time, people take your word for that. If you’re not there, they decide that next time,...
Lockdown is certainly a change of pace for me. I used to fly around the world twice a month! Now I’m stuck inside my 768 sq ft apartment for months...
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...
