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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
EUREKA Eurostars (Calls 10 and 11)
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Supports international consortia so small companies can turn joint innovation into export-ready products.
European Defence Fund — Work Programme
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds collaborative defense research across aerospace, cyber, robotics, AI, and space.
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.
Eurostars Call 11
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Open topic on efficient border surveillance and maritime security
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds up to three border-security and maritime-surveillance projects worth EUR 3.3 million each, built with Border or Coast Guard partners.
Physical and cognitive augmentation in advanced manufacturing
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research into wearable and cognitive augmentation technology that supports factory workers and makes manufacturing jobs safer and more human-centric.
Risk, robustness and resilience for autonomous vehicles in military operations
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds research into automated cyber-defence for military drones and autonomous vehicles that can detect, react to and recover from attacks.
Soft Robotics for Advanced physical capabilities
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two Innovation Action projects, each worth up to EUR 10 million, to build safer robots from soft, compliant materials.
SPRIND Next Frontier AI Challenge — Stage 1
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds German teams through frontier innovation programmes for AI and advanced prototype development.