Robotics grants in the United States

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Supports United States small businesses testing NOAA-focused science and technology concepts through early-stage small-business innovation projects.

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Supports advanced manufacturing research and innovation through Manufacturing Innovation Institute calls.

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Funds regional workforce organizations in North Dakota to align training with labour demand and future industries.

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Connects teams delivering high impact prototypes with milestone support for ROADS Prize Challenge in robotics, defense innovation, and transport and mobility.

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Offers up to $500,000 across three phases for payloads a robotic arm can manipulate in orbit.

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Supports two focused technical streams for special operations through dedicated defense research calls.

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Supports a second special operations technical stream with parallel topics for urgent missions.

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Funds Pittsburgh-based CMU alumni and faculty founders building high-growth startups with $100,000 in non-dilutive grant funding over two years.

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Funds U.S. small businesses testing the feasibility of transportation R&D innovations for DOT mission needs.

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Funds prior DOT Phase I awardees to continue transportation R&D and commercialization work through Phase II.

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Pays up to $1.5 million across a field of cash prizes, including up to $150,000 each to five final winners, to small and large businesses that pitch agile military-sustainment technology to the U.S. Army.

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Awards up to $600,000 in cash prizes to teams pitching live at eMerge Americas 2026.

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Funds U.S.-based industry, academia, and non-profit organizations flight-testing space technologies on commercial suborbital and orbital vehicles.

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Supports startups advancing national security technology through a focused two-stage accelerator.

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Supports early national security ventures through a cohort-based acceleration and dual-use marketplace.

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Funds U.S. small businesses developing on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing technologies through SpaceWERX SBIR/STTR contracts.

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Funds for-profit deep-tech companies from any NATO member nation that are developing dual-use solutions to critical defence and security challenges, through competitive annual and dynamic challenge calls.

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Funds Michigan small businesses pursuing export growth through pre-approved trade reimbursements.

Gives student innovators and startups up to $25,000 in grants plus mentorship and investor access.

Awards $25,000-$50,000 in non-dilutive grants to U.S. undergraduate student founders.

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Funds Princeton investigators moving university inventions toward licensing through proof-of-concept and prototype grants.

Pays high school students in South Dakota, North Dakota and Minnesota cash prizes and scholarships for their best business idea.

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Gives U.S. small businesses non-dilutive R&D funding for high-risk, high-impact deep-tech across nearly every technical field, from a Phase I award through a larger Phase II award.

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Supports young Pennsylvania technology firms in Keystone Innovation Zones through targeted tax incentives.