Robotics grants in the United States

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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 research teaching small teams of autonomous robots to maneuver tactically in complex, adversarial military environments.

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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 teams developing robotics technologies for payload manipulation in space through a NASA prize competition.

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

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Runs Y Combinator Accelerator for early-stage startups with a three-month batch, investment, and mentoring support.

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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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Funds eligible Princeton researchers inventing or applying new research technology through one- or two-year grants.

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

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Supports Pennsylvania firms through tax credits for qualifying innovation expenses, lowering effective innovation costs.

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Funds Wyoming small businesses entering international markets through STEP export reimbursement grants.

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Funds high-growth early-stage North Dakota startups by matching angel investments one-to-one through a state co-investment model.