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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EUDIS Business Accelerator
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Supports defense startups through EU cohorts, providing vouchers and coaching for growth.
EUREKA Eurostars (Calls 10 and 11)
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Supports international consortia so small companies can turn joint innovation into export-ready products.
Innowwide — Next
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Offers market-feasibility support for small companies exploring non-European markets through Europe-wide innovation networks.
NATO DIANA Challenge Programme
NATO DIANA · Global / Multinational
Funds for-profit deep-tech companies from any NATO member nation that are developing dual-use solutions to critical defence and security challenges, through competitive annual and dynamic challenge calls.
SPRIND Challenges
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Runs themed competitions in which teams compete over several stages to solve one defined technical problem.
Accelerating Physical AI: Embodied Intelligence for the Next Frontier of AI-Powered Robotics
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays physical-AI robotics teams a fixed EUR 300,000 lump-sum grant to validate a prototype and then build it into a real-world-tested system.
Advanced Innovation Challenges – Pilot
🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union
Pays deep-tech start-ups, SMEs and research organisations a €300,000 lump sum in Stage 1, then up to €2.5 million in Stage 2, to push high-risk breakthrough innovations that lack commercial uptake toward real-world, demand-tested deployment.
Advancing autonomous systems and robotics for high-risk disaster response in conflict-afflicted crisis zones
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds autonomous robots and remote-sensing tools that let first responders search, assess and support disaster zones made too dangerous by conflict.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition — Challenge 1
🇪🇺EU · European Union
Awards up to €100,000 to teams building a GenAI mission generator for farm robots.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition — Challenge 1: GenAI-Based Natural Language Mission Generator for Autonomous Robots in Agriculture
🇪🇺AI-BOOST · European Union
Awards up to €100,000 for GenAI natural-language control of farm robots.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition (Challenges 3 and 4)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays cash prizes to teams that build and validate generative AI solutions for enhancing clinical datasets or generating automatic test cases from crash databases.
Apply AI: Next-Generation Agile and Intelligent Robotics Platforms for Industrial and Service Applications
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays two European projects between EUR 12 million and EUR 13 million each to build reconfigurable, safe robot platforms for industrial and service settings, using new materials and sensing.
Apply AI: Robotics for Manufacturing — Advancing Core Skills through Technical Challenges
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one European consortium EUR 18 million to run a three-stage robotics competition, with automotive as a required use case, that re-grants up to EUR 3 million per finalist team to smaller developers who compete in it.
Autonomous triage and evacuation
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds research into unmanned vehicles that can find, assess and evacuate wounded soldiers in mass-casualty and CBRN combat zones.
BraveTech EU
🇪🇺AID · France
Supports defense technology initiatives that translate operational experience into practical European innovation projects.
Co-Creation Accelerator 2026-2027
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Pairs early-stage deep tech startups with an industry partner for a four-month co-development sprint and pays up to €250,000 with no co-investment required.
Drone-based affordable mass munitions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds affordable loitering munitions and small combat drones that can be mass-produced, with cascade funding for smaller tech companies.
EIC Advanced Innovation Challenges (Pilot)
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Awards EU deep-tech teams up to €2.5 million in lump-sum grants across two stages.
European Startup and Scaleup Hubs pilot
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a pan-European network of 10-18 startup and scaleup hubs that can pass on up to EUR 60,000 per deep-tech startup for cross-border scaling support.
Fast-track Enabling innovative air mobility (IAM) / Vertical take-off and landing capable aircraft (VCA) (crewed and uncrewed) operations
🇪🇺SESAR 3 JU · European Union
Funds innovation projects on vertiport management, automated flight and IFR procedures for crewed and uncrewed air taxis.
Horizon Space: Space Refuelling Interface
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €2–3M projects developing a European refuelling interface — the docking hardware that lets satellites be topped up in orbit.
Intelligent & Integrated Asset Management
🇪🇺EU-RAIL JU · European Union
Funds one flagship consortium to build AI-driven, unmanned inspection, digital-twin and robotic maintenance systems for European rail assets.
ISOS Pilot Mission detailed design — servicing component
🇪🇺HaDEA · European Union
Funds the detailed design of a robotic in-space servicing spacecraft that can inspect, repair, refuel and relocate other satellites.
On-site innovative robotic and automated solutions for building renovation and construction
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds projects that test on-site robotic and automated construction and renovation techniques, including at least one 3D-printing solution.