Robotics grants in Switzerland
Explore Robotics grants for companies in Switzerland. This list brings together funding for autonomous systems, industrial and service robots, drones and human-robot interaction from Swiss innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in Switzerland, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Robotics in Switzerland come first.
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Initial Coaching
🇨🇭Innosuisse · Switzerland
Offers Swiss start-ups a CHF 10,000 coaching voucher to test and refine their business.
Innosuisse Eurostars Q1 cut-off
🇨🇭Innosuisse · Switzerland
Funds international collaborative research and innovation projects led by innovative small and medium-sized companies.
Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships Cohort
🇨🇭SERI · Switzerland
Provides research mobility support for foreign early-career researchers in Switzerland through SERI scholarship pathways.
Swiss Accelerator
🇨🇭Innosuisse · Switzerland
Funds Swiss SMEs and start-ups already on the market to commercialise and scale innovation projects through Innosuisse direct grants.
Swiss Innovation Challenge
🇨🇭SIC · Switzerland
Pays CHF 30,000 plus in-kind support to a standout Swiss innovation project.
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.
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
NVIDIA · United States
Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.
Global Deep Tech Battle @ SLUSH 2026
swisstech · Switzerland
Awards a 3,000-euro cash prize to the winning deep-tech pitch at SLUSH 2026.
Farm Robotics Challenge
UCANR Innovate · United States
Pays student robotics teams over $100,000 combined to build AI farming solutions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
xTechHumanoid
Army · United States
Supports autonomous humanoid robotics efforts through prizes and potential follow-on mission contracts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
BlindFlight Resilience Challenge
EDGE · United Arab Emirates
Awards $25,000 for a UAV navigation system that survives GNSS jamming and spoofing.
Counter Uncrewed Aerial Systems Sandbox
DND Canada · Canada
Funds counter-UAS prototype developers competing for IDEaS Sandbox monetary prizes.
DeepTech Frontier Challenge 2026
Global Startup EXPO · Japan
Pays a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups from Japan and overseas that pitch cutting-edge, research-rooted technology at Global Startup EXPO 2026 in Osaka.
DeepTech Frontier Challenge 2026
Global Startup EXPO · Japan
Awards a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups pitching at Global Startup EXPO 2026.
Drone in a Box Challenge
EDGE · United Arab Emirates
Pays a guaranteed $15,000 first prize for an integrated autonomous drone-docking system.
GENIUS NY 2024 Competition
GENIUS NY · United States
Invests up to $1 million in seed-stage uncrewed-systems and air-mobility startups.