Robotics grants in China
Explore Robotics grants for companies in China. This list brings together funding for autonomous systems, industrial and service robots, drones and human-robot interaction from Chinese innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in China, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Robotics in China come first.
Showing 1-24 of 77 grants
CAS-TWAS President's Fellowship
🇨🇳CAS · China
Funds international PhD placements between Chinese and global research networks.
Hangzhou High-Level Talent Classification & Subsidy
🇨🇳Hangzhou HR & Social Security Bureau · China
Provides housing subsidies, healthcare access, and startup support for high-level talent across professional sectors.
Hi-Tech Enterprise R&D Subsidy — Claim Year
🇨🇳STIC-SZ · China
Supports Shenzhen high-tech firms through STIC HTE subsidy to recover part of prior innovation spend.
Overseas Talent Pioneer Park Support
🇨🇳ZGCAC · China
Funds Zhongguancun founder and returnee teams with pioneer support that improves innovation capacity and scale.
PIFI (President's International Fellowship Initiative)
🇨🇳CAS · China
Funds international researcher fellowships across career stages and global placements.
Qiantang Talent Program
🇨🇳Hangzhou HR & Social Security Bureau · China
Offers Hangzhou Qiantang pathways for life sciences, semiconductors, aerospace, and materials firms with housing and startup support.
Support Fund for Entrepreneurship Service and Talent Development
🇨🇳ZGCAC · China
Funds technology teams in Zhongguancun parks and talent programs through reimbursements and one-off innovation support in startups.
HNTE Certification
🇨🇳MOST Torch Center · China
Offers tax preference support for qualifying high and new technology enterprises in China.
Creating the World Competition
🇨🇳Hangzhou HR & Social Security Bureau · China
Administers Hangzhou's Creating the World competition for overseas returnees and foreign nationals launching technology ventures.
Shanghai AGI Large Models Special Program — First Batch
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Funds foundational AI groups in Shanghai through AGI Large Models support for early large-scale model research.
Shanghai Key Technology R&D Plan — New Generation IT
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Funds Shanghai applied-research teams through New Generation IT for AI, embodied intelligence, and data governance development.
Hangzhou 131 Young Talent Plan — Selection
🇨🇳Hangzhou HR & Social Security Bureau · China
Offers Hangzhou researchers and professionals annual recognition stipends focused on capability development and employer support.
R&D Super-Deduction Tax Incentive
🇨🇳STA · China
Provides Chinese companies a tax deduction framework for qualifying innovation spend through annual tax filing.
SME Development Fund of China
🇨🇳MOF+MIIT · China
Funds Chinese innovative small and medium-sized enterprises via commitments to specialist funds managed by MIIT-linked structures.
Farm Robotics Challenge
UCANR Innovate · United States
Pays student robotics teams over $100,000 combined to build AI farming solutions.
Defence Rapid Impact
UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Funds innovators from any country developing near-term defence technology prototypes at TRL 6 or 7 through the MOD Defence Innovation Fund.
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
NVIDIA · United States
Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.
EIT Digital Open Innovation Factory
28DIGITAL · European Union
Funds European digital startups at TRL 4-5 seeking co-development with industry partners through EIT Digital's open innovation matching platform.
Open Call for Innovation
UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom
Funds organisations worldwide developing novel defence and security innovations across any technology area from TRL 1 to TRL 8.
AGIBOT WORLD CHALLENGE 2026
AGIBOT · China
Awards $10,000 robot-purchase vouchers to top teams in a global humanoid-robotics manipulation and world-modeling competition.
Deep Tech Geeks Startups Competition
Deep Tech MEA · United Arab Emirates
Awards a free exhibition pod, travel and mentorship to deep-tech scale-ups that place in this annual competition at GITEX North Star in Dubai.
National Security Hackathon (by Army xTech)
Army · United States
Awards $50,000 in cash prizes to top teams at a national-security hackathon backed by the US Army.
Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)/27 Cohort
Creative Destruction Lab · Canada
Offers Creative Destruction Lab cohorts with mentorship, customer discovery, and venture readiness to help startups scale.
AI for Industry Challenge
Intrinsic · United States
Pays $180,000 in cash prizes to developer and robotics teams that train an AI model to solve a real electronics-assembly cable-handling problem on Intrinsic's platform.