Robotics grants in the United Kingdom

Between cycles

Supports scaling Scottish technology businesses with hybrid grant-loan funding and growth recognition.

Closed

Turn a public sector research asset into something a market will pay for.

Closed

Supports early-stage founders from Commonwealth countries with mentoring, masterclasses, and investor-facing acceleration.

Closed

Funding for entrepreneurship-focused doctoral training and venture creation.

Closed

Pays up to £5,000 to teams solving real-world problems with probabilistic computing.

Closed

Pays UK university ventures, startups and SMEs a share of £150,000 in equity-free cash prizes through a national pitching competition.

Closed

Awards UK tech innovators cash prizes after free workshops and live pitching.

Closed

Flexible early-stage funding for research organisations to progress research impact.

Closed

Awards UK-incorporated innovators up to £650,000 in total -- up to £100,000 as a Finalist, then up to £550,000 more as a Winner -- to develop and scale an innovation for the water sector in England and Wales.

Closed

Funds early-stage water-sector innovations with staged seed funding for finalists and winners.

Closed

Offers non-dilutive financing for United Kingdom firms to scale late-stage innovation when standard debt is unavailable.

Closed

Funds Northern Ireland businesses accessing knowledge-provider expertise through GBP 5K innovation vouchers.

Open

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

Open

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

Open

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

Open

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

Between cycles

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

Between cycles

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

Between cycles

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.

Between cycles

Awards $50,000 in cash prizes to top teams at a national-security hackathon backed by the US Army.

Between cycles

Offers Creative Destruction Lab cohorts with mentorship, customer discovery, and venture readiness to help startups scale.

Closed

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.

Closed

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

Closed

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