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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.

Showing 385-408 of 1,297 grants

Public Service of Wallonia — Economy, Employment, Research (Service Public de Wallonie Économie, Emploi, Recherche) logo
Between cycles

Win4Company — R&D Aid

🇧🇪SPW Recherche · Belgium

Funds Walloon industrial teams through a regional programme for research and experimental development projects.

AIBiotech+7
Department of the Army logo
Between cycles

xTech Accelerator

🇺🇸Army · United States

Offers Army xTech competition finalists mentorship and support to transition their tech, no equity taken.

DefenseAI+3
Department of the Army logo
Between cycles

xTech|Adaptive Strike

🇺🇸Army · United States

Supports drone and counter-drone innovation through prizes and demonstration pathways.

DefenseAerospace+3
$25K – $100K
Department of the Army logo
Between cycles

xTech|Edge Strike: Ground

🇺🇸Army · United States

Supports mobile power, payload, and mobility innovation through substantial competitive prize initiatives.

DefenseRobotics+2
$25K – $275K
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWE) logo
Between cycles

ZIM Individual R&D Projects

🇩🇪BMWE · Germany

Supports German small and medium-sized enterprises with technology-neutral projects for new products, processes, and services.

AgritechAI+13
€100K – €311K
Creative Destruction Lab logo
Between cycles

Creative Destruction Lab (CDL)/27 Cohort

Creative Destruction Lab · Canada

Offers Creative Destruction Lab cohorts with mentorship, customer discovery, and venture readiness to help startups scale.

AIQuantum+11
CAD 0
UGA Innovation Gateway — Georgia FAST Grant Program logo
Between cycles

Georgia FAST Grant Phase 0

🇺🇸UGA Innovation Gateway · United States

Funds Georgia-based small businesses hiring a grant writing consultant to prepare a competitive SBIR or STTR application.

AIAgritech+16
$2K
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWE) logo
Between cycles

ZIM Feasibility Studies

🇩🇪BMWE · Germany

Funds German small businesses preparing technology concepts for future project development and commercialization planning.

AgritechAI+13
€30K – €88K
Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie (BMWE) logo
Between cycles

ZIM Innovation Networks

🇩🇪BMWE · Germany

Supports German innovation ecosystems by funding management of networks that connect multiple companies and institutions.

AgritechAI+13
€200K – €600K
Department of the Air Force logo
Closed

Air Force SBIR Phase I

🇺🇸Air Force · United States

Funds United States Air Force and Space Force aligned small-business concepts in early defense feasibility work.

DefenseAI+6
$75K – $323K
Department of the Air Force logo
Closed

Air Force SBIR Phase II

🇺🇸Air Force · United States

Supports United States Air Force-aligned projects maturing defense-ready prototypes toward broader mission adoption.

DefenseAI+6
$750K – $2.2M
Department of National Defence Canada logo
Closed

Defence Innovation Secure Hubs

🇨🇦DND Canada · Canada

Funds Canadian consortia establishing secure quantum and uncrewed-systems defence innovation hubs.

DefenseQuantum+3
European Innovation Council logo
Closed

EIC Pathfinder Open

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.

AerospaceAgritech+22
€1M – €4M
European Innovation Council logo
Closed

EIC Transition Open

🇪🇺EIC · European Union

Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.

AerospaceAgritech+22
€500K – €2.5M
Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy logo
Closed

Innovation Agreements (Accordi per l'Innovazione)

🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy

Offers Italian manufacturing and service firms partnerships to build industrial innovation projects across regions.

Advanced ManufacturingAI+4
National Aeronautics and Space Administration logo
Closed

NASA NIAC Phase II

🇺🇸NASA · United States

Funds researchers and companies advancing early-stage space technology concepts through NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts Phase II program.

AerospaceRobotics+5
NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate logo
Closed

NASA SBIR Phase I

🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States

Funds U.S. small businesses conducting early-stage R&D to establish the feasibility of innovations aligned with NASA mission priorities.

AerospaceAI+7
$225K
NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate logo
Closed

NASA STTR Phase I

🇺🇸NASA STMD · United States

Funds U.S. small businesses and their research institution partners conducting early-stage space technology R&D through NASA's Small Business Technology Transfer program.

AerospaceDefense+11
$225K
NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate — Flight Opportunities logo
Closed

NASA TechLeap Prize: Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge

🇺🇸NASA Flight Opportunities · United States

Funds developers of payloads that can be manipulated by a robotic arm in low Earth orbit with cash prizes and a hosted orbital flight test.

SpaceRobotics+2
$500K
Department of the Navy logo
Closed

Navy SBIR Phase I

🇺🇸Navy · United States

Funds United States naval small-business ideas for ship, aviation, undersea, and autonomy-related feasibility studies.

DefenseRobotics+5
$323K
Department of the Navy logo
Closed

Navy SBIR Phase II

🇺🇸Navy · United States

Supports United States naval innovation teams transitioning validated concepts into stronger prototypes and mission-ready solutions.

DefenseRobotics+5
$2.2M
Electropreneur Park (EP), Bhubaneswar logo
Closed

8th Open Challenge Program (OCP)

🇮🇳EP-BBSR · India

Offers seed funding and incubation support to India's ESDM startups.

HardwareIoT & Edge+4
₹500K
European Commission logo
Closed

Accelerating Physical AI: Embodied Intelligence for the Next Frontier of AI-Powered Robotics

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Pays physical-AI robotics teams a fixed EUR 300,000 lump-sum grant to validate a prototype and then build it into a real-world-tested system.

AIRobotics+1
€300K
European Innovation Council and SMEs Executive Agency (EISMEA) logo
Closed

Advanced Innovation Challenges – Pilot

🇪🇺EISMEA · European Union

Pays deep-tech start-ups, SMEs and research organisations a €300,000 lump sum in Stage 1, then up to €2.5 million in Stage 2, to push high-risk breakthrough innovations that lack commercial uptake toward real-world, demand-tested deployment.

RoboticsAI+1
€300K – €2.5M

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