Robotics grants in Germany

Between cycles

Funds German applied-science universities pursuing multi-year projects across multiple technology domains.

Gives eligible startups up to €100,000 in IONOS Cloud service credit, usable over as long as 24 months, through its SPARK and ACCELERATE tiers.

Between cycles

Funds German SME R&D projects, covering up to 60% of eligible costs.

Awards up to €20,000 in prize money to startups founded in Berlin or Brandenburg.

Pays up to $5,000 in cash and prizes to the best hardware projects built on the Arduino UNO Q.

Open

Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.

Awards a 3,000-euro cash prize to the winning deep-tech pitch at SLUSH 2026.

Pays student robotics teams over $100,000 combined to build AI farming solutions.

Open

Funds innovators from any country developing near-term defence technology prototypes at TRL 6 or 7 through the MOD Defence Innovation Fund.

Open

Funds European digital startups at TRL 4-5 seeking co-development with industry partners through EIT Digital's open innovation matching platform.

Between cycles

Funds organisations worldwide developing novel defence and security innovations across any technology area from TRL 1 to TRL 8.

Awards $10,000 robot-purchase vouchers to top teams in a global humanoid-robotics manipulation and world-modeling competition.

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.

Between cycles

Supports autonomous humanoid robotics efforts through prizes and potential follow-on mission contracts.

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.

Gives selected applied-AI startups a live pitch slot at XTC's AI:360 Summit plus investor and partner introductions.

Awards a $20,000 pilot to autonomous tech for retail service, security or monitoring.

Pays up to $20,000 for a pilot to automate lab-sample transport in a YPF refinery.

Awards $25,000 for a UAV navigation system that survives GNSS jamming and spoofing.

Closed

Funds counter-UAS prototype developers competing for IDEaS Sandbox monetary prizes.

Pays a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups from Japan and overseas that pitch cutting-edge, research-rooted technology at Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka.

Awards a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups pitching at Global Startup EXPO 2026.

Pays a guaranteed $15,000 first prize for an integrated autonomous drone-docking system.

Invests up to $1 million in seed-stage uncrewed-systems and air-mobility startups.