Robotics grants in India

Backs India-based AI startups with a three-month, equity-free accelerator program.

Pays a ₹70,000 total cash prize, split among winning student teams, in a three-round national online hackathon for Indian college students.

Awards up to INR 5 lakh total in grants plus 6 months' incubation to women-led Indian startups.

Pays Indian tech startups up to Rs. 1 crore in seed funding to hit product and market milestones.

Funds up to Rs. 50 lakh in equity-free seed money for early-stage startups.

Funds Gujarat startups up to ₹50 lakh across seed, social-impact and acceleration tracks.

Funds Gujarat student and startup prototypes with ₹2.5-10 lakh grants to reach market.

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Lets Bangalore-based founders pitch for a spot at the global Startup World Cup Grand Finale in Silicon Valley, where the ultimate winner receives a ₹9.3 crore investment award with no equity taken.

Funds Gujarat startups up to ₹30 lakh for prototyping, market research and event costs.

Awards up to INR 4 lakh in grants plus a year of incubation to India-based tech startups.

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Funds India's startup ecosystem indirectly by committing government-backed capital to qualified fund managers in a mother fund structure.

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Supports socially underrepresented founders in India with blended term and working capital loans for new greenfield enterprises.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.