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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 73-96 of 274 grants

SPRIND (Bundesagentur für Sprunginnovationen) logo
Closed

SPRIND Next Frontier AI Challenge — Stage 1

🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany

Funds German teams through frontier innovation programmes for AI and advanced prototype development.

AIHardware+1
€3M
European Commission logo
Closed

Towards autonomous robot collectives delivering collaborative tasks in dynamic unstructured construction environments

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds research teams building multi-robot systems that collaboratively assemble structures on unstructured construction sites.

RoboticsBuilt Environment
€500K – €4M
Vinnova — Sweden's Innovation Agency logo
Open

Planning grant for international proposal 2026

🇸🇪Vinnova · Sweden

Funds Swedish teams preparing a stronger proposal for a published international call.

SEK 500KOct'26
Vinnova — Sweden's Innovation Agency logo
Open

German-Swedish Call for joint R&D projects by Small and Medium-sized Enterprises spring 2026

🇸🇪Vinnova · Sweden

Funds joint R&D projects between Swedish and German SMEs in any technology area.

SEK 3MOct'26
Vetenskapsrådet (Swedish Research Council) logo
Open

Grant for Recruiting International Visiting Researchers

🇸🇪VR · Sweden

Funds Swedish higher education institutions to host international researchers and strengthen global collaboration.

SEK 2MNov'26
Almi (Almi Företagspartner) logo
Open

Almi Verification Grant

🇸🇪Almi (Almi Företagspartner) · Sweden

Funds Swedish SMEs and early-stage founders verifying an innovative business idea through external analysis services.

SEK 100K
Skatteverket (Swedish Tax Agency) logo
Open

R&D Payroll Tax Reduction (FoU-avdrag)

🇸🇪Skatteverket · Sweden

Provides Swedish employer contribution relief through Skatteverket for companies with qualifying innovation staff.

Vinnova — Sweden's Innovation Agency logo
Closed

Eurostars autumn 2026 call 11

🇸🇪Vinnova · Sweden

Funds Swedish SMEs and their international partners to bring near-market R&D to launch.

SEK 5M
TE
Closed

Techarena Challenge

Techarena · Sweden

Offers Nordic startups exhibition space, lodging and investor access at Almedalen.

Almi (Almi Företagspartner) logo
Discontinued

Almi Innovation Loan

🇸🇪Almi (Almi Företagspartner) · Sweden

Supports high-risk Swedish innovation projects through subordinated co-financing loans for prototype development, testing, and commercial scaling.

$50K – $500K
AR
Open

Invent the Future with Arduino UNO Q and App Lab

Arduino · Global / Multinational

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

RoboticsIoT & Edge+2
$3K – $5KSep'26
NVIDIA Corporation logo
Open

NVIDIA Academic Grant Program

NVIDIA · United States

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

AIQuantum+2
Sep'26
SW
Open

Global Deep Tech Battle @ SLUSH 2026

swisstech · Switzerland

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

RoboticsMedtech+1
€3KOct'26
UI
Open

Farm Robotics Challenge

UCANR Innovate · United States

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

AgritechRobotics
Nov'26
UK Defence Innovation (formerly DASA) logo
Open

Defence Rapid Impact

UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom

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

DefenseAI+9
£350K
28DIGITAL (formerly EIT Digital) logo
Open

EIT Digital Open Innovation Factory

🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union

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

AIBiotech+10
UK Defence Innovation (formerly DASA) logo
Between cycles

Open Call for Innovation

UKDI / DASA · United Kingdom

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

DefenseAI+11
AG
Between cycles

AGIBOT WORLD CHALLENGE 2026

AGIBOT · China

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

RoboticsAI
$10K
DT
Between cycles

Deep Tech Geeks Startups Competition

Deep Tech MEA · United Arab Emirates

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.

AIRobotics+4
Department of the Army logo
Between cycles

xTechHumanoid

Army · United States

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

DefenseRobotics+2
$25K – $75K
IN
Closed

AI for Industry Challenge

Intrinsic · United States

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.

RoboticsAdvanced Manufacturing
$10K – $100K
XT
Closed

AI:360 Global Startup Competition 2026

XTC · United States

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

AIEnergy Tech+6
YP
Closed

Autonomous Systems for Customer Experience, Safety, and Operations at YPF Full-Black store

YPF · Argentina

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

RoboticsAI+1
$20K
YP
Closed

Autonomous, Safe, and Scalable Transport of Laboratory Samples in Refinery Operations

YPF · Argentina

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

Energy TechRobotics
$20K

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