Marita Cheng

Quick Facts

Full Name	Marita Cheng
Occupation	Roboticist
Date Of Birth	Mar 5, 1989(1989-03-05)
Age	35
Birthplace	Cairns
Country	Australia
Birth City	Queensland
Horoscope	Pisces

Marita Cheng Biography

Marita Cheng is one of the most popular and richest Roboticist who was born on March 5, 1989 in Cairns, Queensland, Australia. Marita Cheng AMI (born on 5th March, 1989) is the co-founder of Robogals. She was named 2012 Young Australian of the Year. She is the founder and the current CEO of Aubot which is a robotics start-up company. She was also the co-founder of Aipoly which is an app designed that helps blind people recognize objects with their smartphones. She was named an one of World’s Top 50 women in technology by Forbes in 2018 and was also recognized as one of the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2016.

In 2011, Cheng was granted an Churchill Fellowship, which allowed Cheng to travel to in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Jamaica to discover the international approach to the science education of young women. As of 2011, Cheng won the Borg Institute’s Change Agent ABIE Award.

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

In 2013 she established a start-up robotics company.

In November of 2011, Cheng was named Victorian Young Australian of the Year for 2012 and then named Young Australian of the Year. In the same year, she also won at the Financial Review – Westpac 100 Women of Influence Awards”Young Leader category.

Marita Cheng Net Worth

Marita Cheng is one of the richest Roboticist from Australia. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marita Cheng 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

While at university in 2007, Cheng founded Nudge, the company that provided reminders through text or phone message to help users manage their drug prescriptions. She was awarded a prize as the top student business in the University of Melbourne and then began collaborating with friends to create workshops to educate girls about robotics. This evolved into Robogals and was created in 2008 with the aim of guiding young women to career paths within STEM fields. Cheng then graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Engineering in mechatronics, as well as an Associate in Computer Science.

She was in live TV as an ABC panelist with Nobel laureates Brian Schmidt and Peter Doherty, Suzanne Cory and Chief Scientist from Australia Ian Chubb, and in 2011, was judge for The New Inventors. She also spoke with Ashton Kutcher at Lenovo’s #TECHmyway.

From 2012–2018, Cheng served on the board of the Foundation for Young Australians. 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). She was also involved with the Clinton Health Access Initiative as Technology Advisory Board Member (2016-2017).

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

Facts & Trivia

Marita Ranked on the list of most popular Roboticist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Australia. Marita Cheng celebrates birthday on March 5 of every year.

American Australian Association Next Generation Leader (2017)

What did Marita Cheng study at University?

Marita has a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechatronics) / Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Melbourne.

How old is Marita Cheng?

33 years (March 5, 1989)

Where was Marita Cheng born?

Cairns, Australia

Where did Marita Cheng grow up?

Cheng was born in Cairns, Queensland , and grew up in housing commission with her brother and single mother, who worked as a hotel room cleaner. Armed with a high QCE mark and a love of maths and science, she decided to study mechatronics and computer science at the University of Melbourne.

Where did Marita Cheng go to school?

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