Robotics grants in France
Explore Robotics grants for companies in France. This list brings together funding for autonomous systems, industrial and service robots, drones and human-robot interaction from French innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in France, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Robotics in France come first.
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Grand Challenges — Implantable Medical Devices and Surgical Robotics (Grands Défis — DM implantable et robotique chirurgicale)
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds companies developing implantable medical devices and surgical robotics through France 2030 aid.
French Tech Emergence Grant (Bourse French Tech Emergence)
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Supports French deep-tech early ventures with internal and external spending to reach project emergence.
French Tech Lab Grant
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Supports pre-creation deeptech ventures emerging from university research through team formation and business validation.
Deep Tech Pioneers Program — Membership
🇫🇷Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational
Administers development partnerships and mentorship support for deep-tech small and medium-sized enterprises.
Eureka Network Projects — France-South Korea
🇫🇷EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Supports France and South Korea teams through Eureka Network Projects to run joint innovation with industrial and research partners.
i-Démo Generic Call No. 5 — September Round (AAP Générique, relève septembre)
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds large industrial initiatives with shared public and repayable financing for technology scale-up.
RAPID
🇫🇷AID · France
Funds dual use technology exploration for French small businesses and mid size firms in defense and advanced engineering.
ASMA (ASTRID Maturation)
🇫🇷AID · France
Funds maturation of prior French defence-funded research into technology-ready outputs with dual-use potential.
ASTRID
🇫🇷AID · France
Backs early-stage exploratory research with dual civilian and military applicability across fifteen thematic areas.
ASTRID
🇫🇷ANR · France
Funds France innovation teams building dual-use innovation for industry security from proof to commercialization.
EPERVIER — Anti-Drone
🇫🇷AID · France
Supports development of portable anti-drone systems for critical security operations.
Eureka France-Corée du Sud
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Supports France South Korea collaboration on industrial technology and semiconductors.
Hello Tomorrow Global Challenge — 12th
🇫🇷Hello Tomorrow · Global / Multinational
Offers deep-tech startup challengers equity-free seed support, mentorship, and investor exposure across sectors and global markets.
Eurostars Call 11
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.
Horizon Wind: Breakthrough to Demonstration
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €93M wind-energy project — split across breakthrough R&D, technology validation, and at least three real-world demonstrations.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
EUDIS Non-Thematic SME Open Call
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Backs defense innovation by small and medium-sized enterprises and research organizations across EU member states.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – organisation of a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build and run a shared testing environment where other teams' AI-and-robot tactical-awareness research gets evaluated.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – participation in a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research teams up to EUR 4.6 million each to develop AI-and-robot tactical threat detection and test it in a shared technological challenge.
Ammunition Waste Collection and Disposal Unmanned Platform
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a single contractor to build a semi-autonomous robotic platform that finds and disposes of leftover ammunition on former military training grounds and battlefields.
Autonomous and automatic air-to-air refuelling
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to develop sensor and control technology that lets tanker and receiver aircraft refuel each other automatically.
Enhanced medium-size semi-autonomous surface vessels
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to design and prototype a fast, semi-autonomous coastal-defence surface vessel.
Layered critical seabed infrastructure protection
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays up to EUR 15 million per proposal to build a layered system of unmanned assets and sensors that protects undersea infrastructure.
SPRIND Next Frontier Robotics Challenge — Stage 1
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds European teams building complete multi-purpose robots or the breakthrough hardware inside them.