Margarita Chli explores developments in computer vision for robotics, focusing on real-time perception for small aircraft. These are some of the most challenging platforms for robotic perception. Margarita is Assistant Professor at ETH Zurich leading the Vision for Robotics Lab. She is also the Vice Director of the Institute of Robotics and Intelligent Systems of ETH and an Honorary Fellow of the University of Edinburgh (UK). Some highlights of her career include the participation in the first vision-based autonomous flight of a small helicopter, a mention in Robohub’s 2016 list of 25 women in Robotics you need to know about and the award of the biannual Zonta Prize in 2017 on the basis of her high impact contributions on the development of robotic vision. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx