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Marita Cheng was born on 5 March, 1989 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia, is an Australian roboticist. Discover Marita Cheng's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 35 years old?

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Occupation Entrepreneur
Age 35 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 5 March 1989
Birthday 5 March
Birthplace Cairns, Queensland, Australia
Nationality Australia

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1989

Marita Cheng (born 5 March 1989) is the founder of Robogals.

2007

In 2007, while at university, Cheng founded Nudge, a company which provided reminders by phone or text message to help people manage their prescription drug schedules.

She won a prize for the best undergraduate business at the University of Melbourne and then recruited friends to start designing workshops to teach girls about robotics.

2008

This became Robogals, which was founded in 2008 for the purpose of encouraging young women into careers in STEM fields.

Cheng later graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in mechatronics and a Bachelor of Computer Science.

2011

In 2011, Cheng was awarded a Churchill Fellowship, which allowed her to visit the U.S., U.K., Germany and Jamaica to learn about international approaches to science education for young women.

In 2011, Cheng was also awarded the Anita Borg Institute's Change Agent ABIE Award.

In November 2011, Cheng was named Victorian Young Australian of the Year for 2012, and went on to be named as Young Australian of the Year.

In that same year she was also a winner in the Financial Review – Westpac 100 Women of Influence awards' Young Leader category.

She appeared live on TV as a panelist on ABC's Q&A, alongside Nobel laureates Brian Schmidt and Peter Doherty, Suzanne Cory and Chief Scientist of Australia Ian Chubb, and in 2011, served as a judge on The New Inventors.

She spoke alongside Ashton Kutcher at Lenovo's #TECHmyway.

Cheng has been profiled in Vogue Australia, InStyle magazine, and The Australian Women's Weekly for her work as a technology entrepreneur.

2012

She was named the 2012 Young Australian of the Year.

She is the founder and current CEO of Aubot, a start-up robotics company.

She co-founded Aipoly, an app to assist blind people to recognise objects using their mobile phones.

Cheng visited China as part of the 40 Year Anniversary of Australia-China Diplomatic Relations, touring Guangzhou, Shanghai, Nanjing, Tianjin and Beijing in 2012.

From 2012 to 2018, Cheng served on the board of the Foundation for Young Australians.

2013

In 2013 she established a start-up robotics company.

2014

Cheng delivered the closing keynote speech at the 35th World Congress of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts in Hong Kong in 2014.

Cheng helped decide on startup investments alongside Eddie McGuire as a board member of RMIT University's New Enterprise Investment Fund (2014-2017), and supported the Victorian startup ecosystem as a board member of the Victorian State Innovation Expert Panel (2016-2018).

2015

In 2015, Cheng attended Singularity University's flagship 10-week Graduate Studies Program, where she founded an app that uses AI to enable visually impaired people to recognize objects, receiving TechCrunch coverage during her time at the program.

Cheng co-led an Australian delegation of 50 entrepreneurs, industry representatives and government envoys, to Israel alongside Assistant Innovation Minister Wyatt Roy in 2015.

2016

She co-founded Aipoly, which launched in January 2016.

Aipoly is an app to assist blind people to recognise objects using their mobile phones.

She was also involved with the Clinton Health Access Initiative as Technology Advisory Board Member (2016-2017).

Cheng has given two TEDx talks, and has been a featured speaker at MIT Technology Review Conference in Singapore, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), the World Entrepreneurship Forum in Lyon, the Global Summit of Women in Tokyo, and the Girl Scout National Convention in Utah.

2017

The app won a CES Best of Innovation Award in 2017.

Cheng returned to her robotics company, receiving a Myer Fellowship, and participated in the Advance Queensland Hot Desq program in 2017, relocating to Brisbane, Australia for 6 months, and the Austrade San Francisco Landing Pad in 2018, which brought her to San Francisco.

2018

She was named as one of the World's Top 50 women in Technology by Forbes in 2018 and was recognized on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2016.

Cheng frequently attends events via her company's Teleport robot, using the device to meet Prince Harry and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex in 2018, to appear on a panel with Israel's Chief Scientist Avi Hasson, and to give a speech at Robogals' 10-year anniversary gala dinner.

2019

On 9 June 2019, Cheng was appointed a member of the Order of Australia for significant service to science and technology, particularly to robotics.

Cheng was raised by her mother, a single parent who worked as a hotel room cleaner, in a housing commission apartment in Queensland, Australia.