Marita Cheng is a robot-building entreprenuer and a passionate advocate for women in technology. We discover how each step of her journey has led to her current company, Aubot, which creates telepresence robots. Marita is an Australian woman who started dreaming big as a tech entrepreneur at the age of 18 and wanted to build robots. She was inducted as the youngest Member of the Order of Australia and was listed by Forbes as one of the World's Top 50 Women in Tech in 2018, just to name a few of her accomplishments and accolades. Marita is the founder and CEO of several tech companies and also started Robogals at the age of 19. Robogals, which teaches robotics and engineering through robotics workshops, has impacted over 100,000 girls in 11 countries. Marita shares her story and experience, which has taken her from a small town in Northern Australia, to Melbourne, then to the United Kingdom, and now to the United States. Contact Info:Marita [email protected]@marita_cheng (Instagram)[email protected]@womencooljobs (Instagram)Send Julie a text!!------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ I absolutely LOVE being the host and producer of "Women with Cool Jobs", where I interview women who have unique, trailblazing, and innovative careers. It has been such a blessing to share stories of incredible, inspiring women since I started in 2020. If you have benefitted from this work, or simply appreciate that I do it, please consider buying me a $5 coffee. ☕️ https://www.buymeacoffee.com/julieberman Thank you so much for supporting me -- whether by sharing an episode with a friend, attending a LIVE WWCJ event in Phoenix, connecting with me on Instagram @womencooljobs or LinkedIn, sending me a note on my website (www.womenwithcooljobs.com), or by buying me a coffee! It all means so much. <3

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