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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Advancing atmospheric and aerial autonomy
🇬🇧NERC · United Kingdom
Proof-of-concept support for autonomous environmental observing capability.
Advancing autonomous systems and robotics for high-risk disaster response in conflict-afflicted crisis zones
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds autonomous robots and remote-sensing tools that let first responders search, assess and support disaster zones made too dangerous by conflict.
Agri Sandbox 2025 - Technology Validation Grant
🇮🇳AgHub · India
Funds Agritech pilot validation on real farms, up to Rs. 20 lakh, for post-MVP solutions.
AI for Industry Challenge
Intrinsic · United States
Pays $180,000 in cash prizes to developer and robotics teams that train an AI model to solve a real electronics-assembly cable-handling problem on Intrinsic's platform.
AI Talent Demonstration Startup Package
🇰🇷MSS · South Korea
Funds Korean startups hiring trained AI talent to solve a defined product, service, or operating problem.
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.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition — Challenge 1
🇪🇺EU · European Union
Awards up to €100,000 to teams building a GenAI mission generator for farm robots.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition — Challenge 1: GenAI-Based Natural Language Mission Generator for Autonomous Robots in Agriculture
🇪🇺AI-BOOST · European Union
Awards up to €100,000 for GenAI natural-language control of farm robots.
AI-BOOST AI Challenge Competition (Challenges 3 and 4)
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays cash prizes to teams that build and validate generative AI solutions for enhancing clinical datasets or generating automatic test cases from crash databases.
AI:360 Global Startup Competition 2026
XTC · United States
Gives selected applied-AI startups a live pitch slot at XTC's AI:360 Summit plus investor and partner introductions.
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.
Apply AI: Next-Generation Agile and Intelligent Robotics Platforms for Industrial and Service Applications
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays two European projects between EUR 12 million and EUR 13 million each to build reconfigurable, safe robot platforms for industrial and service settings, using new materials and sensing.
Apply AI: Robotics for Manufacturing — Advancing Core Skills through Technical Challenges
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Pays one European consortium EUR 18 million to run a three-stage robotics competition, with automotive as a required use case, that re-grants up to EUR 3 million per finalist team to smaller developers who compete in it.
ARIA Activation Partners RFP
🇬🇧ARIA · United Kingdom
Offers collaboration opportunities for United Kingdom organizations designing advanced activity hubs across strategic AI opportunity spaces.
ARPA-I Ideas and Innovation Challenge — Stage 2
🇺🇸ARPA-I · United States
Supports transportation infrastructure challengers advancing knowledge, construction, optimization, and enabling technologies through ARPA-I competition.
ASCA EDT Decision Advantage
🇦🇺Defence AU · Australia
Funds Australian companies and universities developing AI and data-fusion technologies for Defence decision-making capability.
ASCA EDT P2ISR — Persistent and Pervasive Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance
🇦🇺Defence AU · Australia
Funds Australian companies and universities developing sensing, edge processing, and ISR technologies for persistent Defence situational awareness.
ASMA (ASTRID Maturation)
🇫🇷AID · France
Funds maturation of prior French defence-funded research into technology-ready outputs with dual-use potential.
ASTRID
🇫🇷ANR · France
Funds France innovation teams building dual-use innovation for industry security from proof to commercialization.
ASTRID
🇫🇷AID · France
Backs early-stage exploratory research with dual civilian and military applicability across fifteen thematic areas.
Automated Frozen Fish and Shrimp Block Handling Call
🇳🇴FHF · Norway
Funds seafood companies and suppliers developing automated systems to handle frozen fish and shrimp blocks through an FHF project grant.
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.
Autonomous Systems for Customer Experience, Safety, and Operations at YPF Full-Black store
YPF · Argentina
Awards a $20,000 pilot to autonomous tech for retail service, security or monitoring.