Robotics grants in the United Kingdom

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Awards $25,000 for a UAV navigation system that survives GNSS jamming and spoofing.

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Funds counter-UAS prototype developers competing for IDEaS Sandbox monetary prizes.

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Awards a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups pitching at Global Startup EXPO 2026.

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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.

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Pays a guaranteed $15,000 first prize for an integrated autonomous drone-docking system.

Invests up to $1 million in seed-stage uncrewed-systems and air-mobility startups.

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

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Funds researchers at companies including startups doing R&D aimed at commercialization under JST's Global Startup Campus initiative.

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Supports doctoral students in computing, robotics, and intelligent systems by pairing university awards with industry mentorship.

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Pays up to $155,000 across three phases for a new lunar rover wheel design.

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Funds United Kingdom programs strengthening surgical workforce development and team capacity in healthcare.

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Runs a 10-week, no-cost, non-dilutive accelerator for early-stage security, resiliency, and dual-use founders, from Pre-Seed through Series A+, culminating in enterprise pilots and investor-ready pitches.

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Funds teams building autonomous wildfire sensing and suppression systems for faster emergency response.

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Pays a $3.5 million Grand Prize (plus milestone and bonus prizes from a $5 million pool) to the team whose autonomous system detects and fully suppresses a high-risk wildfire fastest.

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

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Funds partnerships of universities, research institutes and businesses to jointly run doctoral training programmes for early-career researchers.

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Pays SMEs a fixed EUR60,000 grant to run a six-month market feasibility project testing whether their innovation can be commercialised in a target country in Africa, the Americas, Asia or Oceania.

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Awards women founders and co-founders across three prize categories, from EUR 20,000 up to EUR 100,000, for leading breakthrough European innovations.

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Pays SMEs and startups a 60,000-euro grant to test whether their solution is viable in a target overseas market.

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Funds cross-sector consortia building 'talent ecosystems' that connect researcher training with employer needs to make early research careers more attractive.

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Funds consortia running youth science-engagement programmes or researcher-public dialogue events under one of two chosen tracks to boost trust in science.

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Funds a group of 3-6 cities to jointly run a year-long 'Science comes to town' public-engagement programme, including the EUCYS and EU TalentOn competitions.

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Funds part of the cost of talent-recruitment programmes that give postdoctoral researchers a two-phase path to a stable research career in Europe.

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Funds part of the cost of running new or existing doctoral training programmes at universities and research organisations.