Robotics grants in the United Kingdom
Explore Robotics grants for companies in the United Kingdom. This list brings together funding for autonomous systems, industrial and service robots, drones and human-robot interaction from UK innovation agencies, research funders and foundations, international programs open to applicants in the United Kingdom, and competitions any company can enter, with the deadline, award size and eligibility on every listing. Grants aimed at Robotics in the United Kingdom come first.
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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
Awards a ¥10 million grand prize to deep-tech startups pitching at Global Startup EXPO 2026.
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.
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.
JST GSC Initiative: International Research Program
JST · Japan
Funds researchers at companies including startups doing R&D aimed at commercialization under JST's Global Startup Campus initiative.
NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship
NVIDIA · United States
Supports doctoral students in computing, robotics, and intelligent systems by pairing university awards with industry mentorship.
Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge
NTL · United States
Pays up to $155,000 across three phases for a new lunar rover wheel design.
SAVE — Execution
Wellcome Leap · United States
Funds United Kingdom programs strengthening surgical workforce development and team capacity in healthcare.
Security & Resiliency Traction Program
MassChallenge · United States
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.
XPRIZE Wildfire — Finals Phase
XPRIZE · United States
Funds teams building autonomous wildfire sensing and suppression systems for faster emergency response.
XPRIZE Wildfire Track B: Autonomous Wildfire Response
XPRIZE · United States
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.
ERC Proof of Concept Grants
🇪🇺ERC · European Union
Pays existing ERC grant holders a EUR 150,000 lump sum to explore the commercial or social innovation potential of their ERC-funded research.
Horizon EIE: Technology Transfer Offices
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds five €1M projects that help universities and research organisations turn academic inventions into licences, spin-offs and industry deals.
Creative alliances: Fostering global partnerships in cultural policies and CCI innovation
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays international research consortiums roughly €3-3.75 million to build cross-regional creative-industry and cultural-diplomacy partnerships between Europe and world regions such as Africa, Asia and Latin America.
Governing global commons sustainably
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to develop policy solutions for the sustainable, science-informed governance of shared global resources like the climate, biodiversity and outer space.
Government in transition — how governments change the way they work and prepare the civil service for the future
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study how EU and Associated Country governments are reinventing internal operations and preparing their civil services for the future.
Making Europe a global magnet for talent — attracting and retaining non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3-3.3 million to study what draws and keeps non-EU students, researchers and high-skilled workers in Europe.
Safeguarding linguistic diversity in Europe
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €5-5.75 million to document, map and help safeguard Europe's regional, minority and endangered languages.
Tackling child poverty and ensuring disadvantaged children's access to Early Childhood Education and Care
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3-4 million to produce EU-specific evidence on the cost of child poverty and how to close gaps in disadvantaged children's access to early childhood education.
Tackling gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research consortiums roughly €3.5-4 million to study, and recommend policy responses to, gender-based violence against politically active women and LGBTIQ people.
Horizon Research Management Facility
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a Europe-wide support service that helps Widening-country research institutions build stronger management teams, systems and training.