Summary form only given. Flying drones are revolutionizing many areas of search-and-rescue, mobile sensing, security monitoring, and beyond. This talk will focus on circuits and system design challenges for SoCs intended for autonomous robotic flying vehicles. The performance, energy, and form-factor requirements of flying robots leads to many unique digital and mixed-signal design challenges. The talk will draw from experiences from the design of a custom SoC for the Harvard Robobees Project (http://robobees.seas.harvard.edu), which has the goal of developing a swarm of autonomous, life-sized robotic insects.