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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Physical and cognitive augmentation in advanced manufacturing
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds research into wearable and cognitive augmentation technology that supports factory workers and makes manufacturing jobs safer and more human-centric.
Pre-Startup Package
🇰🇷KISED · South Korea
Supports would-be entrepreneurs in Korea with commercialization guidance and early innovation funding before formal company launch.
Proof of Business
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels companies developing their first technologically innovative prototype or service, covering 50 to 70 percent of the budget for technical and economic validation.
R&D Projects
🇧🇪Innoviris · Belgium
Funds Brussels companies doing industrial research, experimental development, or process innovation through grants covering 15 to 70 percent of project costs.
R&D Tax Incentive — claim year
🇳🇿Callaghan Innovation · New Zealand
Provides New Zealand businesses with policy support for innovation investments.
Regional Workforce Impact Program (RWIP)
🇺🇸ND Commerce · United States
Funds regional workforce organizations in North Dakota to align training with labour demand and future industries.
Risk, robustness and resilience for autonomous vehicles in military operations
🇪🇺EDF · European Union
Funds research into automated cyber-defence for military drones and autonomous vehicles that can detect, react to and recover from attacks.
ROADS Prize Challenge
🇺🇸DIU · United States
Connects teams delivering high impact prototypes with milestone support for ROADS Prize Challenge in robotics, defense innovation, and transport and mobility.
Robotic By-product Sorting from White Fish
FHF · Norway
Supports seafood processors with robotic sorting solutions that automate white fish by-product handling and improve processing efficiency.
Robotically Manipulated Payload Challenge
🇺🇸NASA · United States
Offers up to $500,000 across three phases for payloads a robotic arm can manipulate in orbit.
Robotics Adoption Central Convening Body
🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom
Funds UK organisations creating a central body to coordinate national robotics adoption hubs through Innovate UK and DSIT co-funding.
Robotized Fish Handling Onboard Vessels (PIB)
FHF · Norway
Supports development and onboard implementation of robotic fish handling systems to improve vessel operations in commercial fisheries.
Robust and trustworthy GenerativeAI for Robotics and industrial automation (RIA) (AI/Data/Robotics & Made in Europe Partnerships)
🇮🇸European Commission · European Union
Funds two projects, worth up to EUR 45 million each, to build generative AI foundation models for robotics or manufacturing, with at least EUR 10 million of each project re-granted to third-party companies.
Rock and Roll with NASA Challenge
NTL · United States
Pays up to $155,000 across three phases for a new lunar rover wheel design.
SAVE — Execution
Wellcome Leap · United States
Funds United Kingdom programs strengthening surgical workforce development and team capacity in healthcare.
Security & Resiliency Traction Program
MassChallenge · United States
Runs a 10-week, no-cost, non-dilutive accelerator for early-stage security, resiliency, and dual-use founders, from Pre-Seed through Series A+, culminating in enterprise pilots and investor-ready pitches.
Shanghai AGI Large Models Special Program — First Batch
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Funds foundational AI groups in Shanghai through AGI Large Models support for early large-scale model research.
Shanghai Key Technology R&D Plan — New Generation IT
🇨🇳STCSM · China
Funds Shanghai applied-research teams through New Generation IT for AI, embodied intelligence, and data governance development.
SOCOM SBIR Release 1
🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States
Supports two focused technical streams for special operations through dedicated defense research calls.
SOCOM SBIR Release 2
🇺🇸SOFWERX · United States
Supports a second special operations technical stream with parallel topics for urgent missions.
Soft Robotics for Advanced physical capabilities
🇪🇺European Commission · European Union
Funds two Innovation Action projects, each worth up to EUR 10 million, to build safer robots from soft, compliant materials.
SPIN: Rise
🇪🇺28DIGITAL · European Union
Offers early-career deep-tech researchers a free venture-creation and pre-incubation programme with training, coaching and a European bootcamp.
SPRIND Next Frontier AI Challenge — Stage 1
🇩🇪SPRIND · Germany
Funds German teams through frontier innovation programmes for AI and advanced prototype development.
Startup TRL 3-4
🇦🇷Agencia I+D+i · Argentina
Funds Argentine deep-tech startups up to 7 years old developing proof-of-concept and early laboratory prototypes at TRL 3-4.