Robotics grants in the Netherlands
Explore Robotics grants for companies in the Netherlands. This list brings together funding for autonomous systems, industrial and service robots, drones and human-robot interaction from Dutch innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in the Netherlands, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Robotics in the Netherlands come first.
Showing 1-24 of 271 grants
KIEM HighTech
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch industry-linked applied research pilots and prototype development in high-technology fields.
Take-off Phase 2 — Early-Stage Loan (Vroegefasetraject)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Invests Netherlands firms in knowledge startups building commercialization-ready products through structured financing and growth-oriented milestones.
Take-off Phase 1 — Feasibility Study (WO)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch academic entrepreneurs turning innovative ideas into commercially viable feasibility-focused technology studies.
Innovation Credit (Innovatiekrediet)
🇳🇱EZK · Netherlands
Funds high-risk Dutch innovation projects through a repayable government credit instrument.
WBSO R&D Wage-Tax Credit
🇳🇱EZK · Netherlands
Funds Dutch companies with wage support through WBSO, reducing personnel costs for approved science and innovation activity.
Open Technology Programme
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch applied technology research in universities and public institutes through collaborative calls.
SME Hightech Call
🇳🇱Holland High Tech · Netherlands
Supports Dutch small and medium high-tech businesses partnering with researchers to build scalable hardware, quantum, and robotic technologies.
LDC Impact Prize 2026
🇳🇱LDC · Netherlands
Splits a non-dilutive CHF 100,000 between two later-stage agri- and industrial-tech startups.
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.
Horizon Disaster Response: Search & Rescue Tech
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds €4M projects that build and field-test search-and-rescue tech — drones, robotics, sensors — for wildfires, earthquakes and other hazardous disasters.
EDF Development Actions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds defence technology validation and prototype demonstration across digital transformation, air defence, and space integration.
EDF Research Actions
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds collaborative European defense research consortia delivering disruptive solutions across security, space, and quantum technologies.
EUDIS (Disruptive Technologies and SME Calls)
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Supports small and medium defense innovators across Europe through development calls, coaching, and early-stage consortium opportunities.
EIC Accelerator — Short Proposal
🇮🇱ISERD · Israel
Supports small and medium firms in early-stage deep technologies through public proposals and commercialization mentoring.