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Robotics grants in Sweden

Explore Robotics grants for companies in Sweden. This list brings together funding for autonomous systems, industrial and service robots, drones and human-robot interaction from Swedish innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, EU and international programs open to applicants in Sweden, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Robotics in Sweden come first.

Most active fundersKK-stiftelsen6Vinnova2

Showing 25-48 of 276 grants

Netherlands Enterprise Agency logo
Between cycles

Eurostars Call 12 for projects

🇪🇺RVO · Netherlands

Funds innovative SME-led international R&D consortia through the Eurostars Call 12 grant process.

AIBiotech+15
€500K
European Innovation Council logo
Between cycles

EIC Advanced Innovation Challenges — Stage 2

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Funds advanced innovation projects advancing robotics and physical AI deep-tech initiatives toward scalable outcomes.

AIBiotech+1
€2.5M
European Innovation Council logo
Between cycles

Advanced Innovation Challenge: Accelerating Physical AI

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

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

AIHardware+1
€300K
28DIGITAL (formerly EIT Digital) logo
Between cycles

Co-Creation Accelerator 2026-2027

🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union

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.

AIRobotics+2
€250K
28DIGITAL (formerly EIT Digital) logo
Between cycles

EIT Digital Co-Creation Accelerator

🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union

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

AIBiotech+11
€250K
European Defence Fund (DG DEFIS) logo
Between cycles

EUDIS Business Accelerator

🇪🇺EDF · European Union

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

AICybersecurity+4
€120K – €170K
28DIGITAL (formerly EIT Digital) logo
Between cycles

SPIN: Rise

🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union

Offers early-career deep-tech researchers a free venture-creation and pre-incubation programme with training, coaching and a European bootcamp.

Climate TechAerospace+3
SPRIND (Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen) logo
Between cycles

SPRIND Challenges

🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany

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

QuantumRobotics+2
€500K – €3M
European Innovation Council logo
Closed

EIC Pathfinder Open

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

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

AerospaceAgritech+22
€1M – €4M
European Innovation Council logo
Closed

EIC Transition Open

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.

AerospaceAgritech+22
€500K – €2.5M
European Commission logo
Closed

Accelerating Physical AI: Embodied Intelligence for the Next Frontier of AI-Powered Robotics

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

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.

AIRobotics+1
€300K
European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) logo
Closed

Advanced Innovation Challenges – Pilot

🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union

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.

RoboticsAI+1
€300K – €2.5M
European Commission logo
Closed

Advancing autonomous systems and robotics for high-risk disaster response in conflict-afflicted crisis zones

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

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

RoboticsDefense
€5M
European Commission logo
Closed

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.

DefenseAI+1
European Commission logo
Closed

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.

DefenseAI+1
€4.6M
European Union (Eureka Innowwide) logo
Closed

AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition — Challenge 1

🇪🇺EU · European Union

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

AgritechRobotics+1
€29K – €100K
AI-BOOST (EU-funded project consortium), challenge led by Consorzio Intellimech and JOiINT LAB logo
Closed

AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition — Challenge 1: GenAI-Based Natural Language Mission Generator for Autonomous Robots in Agriculture

🇪🇺AI-BOOST · European Union

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

AgritechRobotics+1
€29K – €100K
European Commission logo
Closed

AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition (Challenges 3 and 4)

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

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

AIRobotics+2
€129K
European Commission logo
Closed

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.

RoboticsDefense
European Commission logo
Closed

Apply AI: Next-Generation Agile and Intelligent Robotics Platforms for Industrial and Service Applications

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

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.

RoboticsAdvanced Manufacturing
€12M – €13M
European Commission logo
Closed

Apply AI: Robotics for Manufacturing — Advancing Core Skills through Technical Challenges

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

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.

RoboticsAdvanced Manufacturing
€18M
European Commission logo
Closed

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.

DefenseAerospace+1
European Defence Fund (DG DEFIS) logo
Closed

Autonomous triage and evacuation

🇪🇺EDF · European Union

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

DefenseMedtech+1
Agence de l'innovation de défense logo
Closed

BraveTech EU

🇪🇺AID · France

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

DefenseAI+3
€1M

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