Robotics grants in Germany

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Supports ARPA inspired high risk demand driven Physical AI pilots with transformative deep-tech potential.

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Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.

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Invests in European deep-tech scale-up ventures with momentum needing capital for commercial expansion.

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Funds early-stage deep tech startups developing solutions at TRL 4-5 in collaboration with industry partners through a 4-month co-creation programme.

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Funds startups and industry teams building mobility, transport, and climate technologies through urban innovation support.

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Supports defense startups through EU cohorts, providing vouchers and coaching for growth.

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Supports international consortia so small companies can turn joint innovation into export-ready products.

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Offers market-feasibility support for small companies exploring non-European markets through Europe-wide innovation networks.

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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.

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Runs themed competitions in which teams compete over several stages to solve one defined technical problem.

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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.

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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.

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Funds autonomous robots and remote-sensing tools that let first responders search, assess and support disaster zones made too dangerous by conflict.

Awards up to €100,000 to teams building a GenAI mission generator for farm robots.

Awards up to €100,000 for GenAI natural-language control of farm robots.

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Pays cash prizes to teams that build and validate generative AI solutions for enhancing clinical datasets or generating automatic test cases from crash databases.

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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.

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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.

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Funds research into unmanned vehicles that can find, assess and evacuate wounded soldiers in mass-casualty and CBRN combat zones.

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Supports defense technology initiatives that translate operational experience into practical European innovation projects.

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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.

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Funds affordable loitering munitions and small combat drones that can be mass-produced, with cascade funding for smaller tech companies.

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Awards EU deep-tech teams up to €2.5 million in lump-sum grants across two stages.

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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.