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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Win4Company — R&D Aid
🇧🇪SPW Recherche · Belgium
Funds Walloon industrial teams through a regional programme for research and experimental development projects.
xTech Accelerator
🇺🇸Army · United States
Offers Army xTech competition finalists mentorship and support to transition their tech, no equity taken.
xTech|Adaptive Strike
🇺🇸Army · United States
Supports drone and counter-drone innovation through prizes and demonstration pathways.
xTech|Edge Strike: Ground
🇺🇸Army · United States
Supports mobile power, payload, and mobility innovation through substantial competitive prize initiatives.
ZIM Individual R&D Projects
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Supports German small and medium-sized enterprises with technology-neutral projects for new products, processes, and services.
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.
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.
ZIM Feasibility Studies
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Funds German small businesses preparing technology concepts for future project development and commercialization planning.
ZIM Innovation Networks
🇩🇪BMWE · Germany
Supports German innovation ecosystems by funding management of networks that connect multiple companies and institutions.
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.
Air Force SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸Air Force · United States
Supports United States Air Force-aligned projects maturing defense-ready prototypes toward broader mission adoption.
Defence Innovation Secure Hubs
🇨🇦DND Canada · Canada
Funds Canadian consortia establishing secure quantum and uncrewed-systems defence innovation hubs.
EIC Pathfinder Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Funds bottom-up research for breakthrough deep-tech, any field of science.
EIC Transition Open
🇪🇺EIC · European Union
Supports European deep-tech ventures advancing laboratory research toward validated prototypes and near-market technologies.
Innovation Agreements (Accordi per l'Innovazione)
🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy
Offers Italian manufacturing and service firms partnerships to build industrial innovation projects across regions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Navy SBIR Phase I
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Funds United States naval small-business ideas for ship, aviation, undersea, and autonomy-related feasibility studies.
Navy SBIR Phase II
🇺🇸Navy · United States
Supports United States naval innovation teams transitioning validated concepts into stronger prototypes and mission-ready solutions.
8th Open Challenge Program (OCP)
🇮🇳EP-BBSR · India
Offers seed funding and incubation support to India's ESDM startups.
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.
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.