Marita Cheng

Marita Cheng was 2012 Young Australian of the Year, a Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2016 and the founder and CEO of aubot (formerly called 2Mar Robotics) which makes a telepresence robot Teleport for kids with cancer in hospital to attend school, people with a disability to attend work, and to monitor and socialise with elderly people. In 2015 Marita attended Singularity University's 10-week flagship Graduate Studies Program. While there she cofounded Aipoly Aipoly's first application recognises objects in real time on a smartphone using convolutional neural networks and relays them to people who are visually impaired. Since launching at CES in January 2016, Aipoly has been downloaded over 500,000 times and has been translated into 23 languages. Marita was founder of Robogals which encourages girls into engineering careers and tertiary studies and has taught over 70,000 girls robotics.