Robotics grants
Explore grants for robotics companies. This directory includes funding for autonomous systems, industrial and service robots, drones, perception and manipulation, and robots for healthcare, agriculture and logistics, from research councils, innovation agencies and industry-led programs.
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Eurostars Call 11
🇪🇺EUREKA · Global / Multinational
Funds small and medium enterprises across Europe via Eurostars Call 11 for collaborative innovation with international partners.
Mitacs Accelerate Global Excellence Award
🇨🇦Mitacs · Canada
Invests in exceptional international postdoctoral researchers relocating to Canada for industry-partnered research.
Invent the Future with Arduino UNO Q and App Lab
Arduino · Global / Multinational
Pays up to $5,000 in cash and prizes to the best hardware projects built on the Arduino UNO Q.
Horizon Wind: Breakthrough to Demonstration
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds one €93M wind-energy project — split across breakthrough R&D, technology validation, and at least three real-world demonstrations.
KIEM HighTech
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Funds Dutch industry-linked applied research pilots and prototype development in high-technology fields.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
SBO Security and Defence
🇧🇪FWO · Belgium
Funds strategic basic research in security and defense aligned with space, maritime, aviation, and cybersecurity priorities.
SBO Strategic Basic Research Projects
🇧🇪FWO · Belgium
Funds strategic basic research across Flemish institutions in AI, biotech, climate, and engineering.
EUDIS Non-Thematic SME Open Call
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Backs defense innovation by small and medium-sized enterprises and research organizations across EU member states.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – organisation of a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a contractor to build and run a shared testing environment where other teams' AI-and-robot tactical-awareness research gets evaluated.
AI-based tactical situational awareness using swarms of small robots and drones – participation in a technological challenge
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays research teams up to EUR 4.6 million each to develop AI-and-robot tactical threat detection and test it in a shared technological challenge.
Ammunition Waste Collection and Disposal Unmanned Platform
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays a single contractor to build a semi-autonomous robotic platform that finds and disposes of leftover ammunition on former military training grounds and battlefields.
Autonomous and automatic air-to-air refuelling
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to develop sensor and control technology that lets tanker and receiver aircraft refuel each other automatically.
Enhanced medium-size semi-autonomous surface vessels
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds a contractor to design and prototype a fast, semi-autonomous coastal-defence surface vessel.
Layered critical seabed infrastructure protection
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays up to EUR 15 million per proposal to build a layered system of unmanned assets and sensors that protects undersea infrastructure.
Development of innovative digital products and applications (POCIDIF)
🇷🇴MIPE · Romania
Funds Romanian IT SMEs building AI, IoT, VR or robotics products with €500K-€3M.
Farming Futures R&D fund: Automation and Robotics Round 2
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Collaborative automation and robotics R&D for agriculture, horticulture and forestry.
NRL Broad Agency Announcement
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Supports naval research collaborations with universities, firms, and consortia for practical outcomes.
NVIDIA Academic Grant Program
NVIDIA · United States
Provides in-kind GPU compute and hardware to faculty-led research at PhD-granting universities.
ONR Long Range BAA
🇺🇸ONR · United States
Supports Navy and Marine science teams through ONR Long Range access to opportunities across science and technology domains.
Take-off Phase 2 — Early-Stage Loan (Vroegefasetraject)
🇳🇱NWO · Netherlands
Invests Netherlands firms in knowledge startups building commercialization-ready products through structured financing and growth-oriented milestones.
Grand Challenges — Implantable Medical Devices and Surgical Robotics (Grands Défis — DM implantable et robotique chirurgicale)
🇫🇷Bpifrance · France
Funds companies developing implantable medical devices and surgical robotics through France 2030 aid.
HNTE Certification
🇨🇳MOST Torch Center · China
Offers tax preference support for qualifying high and new technology enterprises in China.
FFG COMET Projects
🇦🇹FFG · Austria
Supports Austrian academia and firms through collaborative innovation projects that turn research outputs into commercial solutions.