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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.

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Strathclyde Inspire — University of Strathclyde logo
Closed

Strathclyde Inspire Innovation Challenge

🇬🇧Strathclyde Inspire · United Kingdom

Supports University of Strathclyde students with early startup ideas through a competition that rewards market-ready commercial thinking.

AIBiotech+5
£10K
Ministero delle Imprese e del Made in Italy logo
Closed

Sustainable Investments 4.0 — Call (Investimenti Sostenibili 4.0 — Bando)

🇮🇹MIMIT · Italy

Funds Italian Mezzogiorno manufacturers scaling Industry 4.0 upgrades in AI, robotics, and automation.

Advanced ManufacturingAI+3
€750K – €5M
James R. Swartz Center for Entrepreneurship logo
Closed

Tartan Entrepreneurs Fund

🇺🇸Swartz Center · United States

Funds Pittsburgh-based CMU alumni and faculty founders building high-growth startups with $100,000 in non-dilutive grant funding over two years.

AIBiotech+8
$100K
IS
Closed

TattvaX Cohort 2

🇮🇳i-Hub & SanchiConnect · India

Backs Indian deeptech startups in space, defence and drones with mentorship and pilots.

DefenseSpace+4
AC
Closed

Tech Next Challenge 2026

🇮🇳Accenture · India

Gives winning deep-tech startups fast-track access to Accenture's enterprise clients, up to $25,000 in non-dilutive AWS cloud credits, and NVIDIA Inception perks, with no equity taken just to apply.

AIRobotics
$25K
Business Finland logo
Closed

Tempo Funding

🇫🇮Business Finland · Finland

Supports Finnish startups validating innovation demand and strengthening models before major business scaling.

AgritechAI+14
€30K – €60K
European Commission logo
Closed

Towards autonomous robot collectives delivering collaborative tasks in dynamic unstructured construction environments

🇪🇺European Commission · European Union

Funds research teams building multi-robot systems that collaboratively assemble structures on unstructured construction sites.

RoboticsBuilt Environment
€500K – €4M
U.S. Department of Transportation logo
Closed

U.S. DOT SBIR Phase I

🇺🇸US DOT · United States

Funds U.S. small businesses testing the feasibility of transportation R&D innovations for DOT mission needs.

MobilityAI+4
$200K
U.S. Department of Transportation logo
Closed

U.S. DOT SBIR Phase II

🇺🇸US DOT · United States

Funds prior DOT Phase I awardees to continue transportation R&D and commercialization work through Phase II.

MobilityAI+4
$1.5M
Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council logo
Closed

UK Japan Civil Nuclear Research Programme 2026

🇬🇧EPSRC · United Kingdom

Research funding for UK-Japan nuclear decommissioning projects.

Energy TechRobotics+2
£250K – £594K
Innovate UK logo
Closed

UK-Switzerland Collaborative R&D

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds UK businesses doing joint R&D in specific technology areas with Swiss partners through Innovate UK bilateral competition rounds.

AIBiotech+10
£450K
Villum Foundation logo
Closed

Villum Young Investigator

🇩🇰Villum Fonden · Denmark

Funds early-career scientists in Denmark to build independent teams, leadership, and long-running research programmes.

AIBiotech+8
DKK 9M
XPRIZE Foundation logo
Closed

XPRIZE Wildfire — Finals Phase

XPRIZE · United States

Funds teams building autonomous wildfire sensing and suppression systems for faster emergency response.

AerospaceRobotics+2
$3.5M
XPRIZE Foundation logo
Closed

XPRIZE Wildfire Track B: Autonomous Wildfire Response

XPRIZE · United States

Pays a $3.5 million Grand Prize (plus milestone and bonus prizes from a $5 million pool) to the team whose autonomous system detects and fully suppresses a high-risk wildfire fastest.

Climate TechRobotics+1
$3.5M
Department of the Army logo
Closed

xTech | Kinetic Reach

🇺🇸Army · United States

Pays up to $1.5 million across a field of cash prizes, including up to $150,000 each to five final winners, to small and large businesses that pitch agile military-sustainment technology to the U.S. Army.

DefenseRobotics+1
$150K
Department of the Army logo
Closed

xTech|Live at eMerge Americas 2026

🇺🇸Army · United States

Awards up to $600,000 in cash prizes to teams pitching live at eMerge Americas 2026.

DefenseIoT & Edge+1
$100K
Business Finland logo
Closed

Young Innovative Companies (YIC) — Phase 1

🇫🇮Business Finland · Finland

Funds high-potential young Finnish startups with promising international expansion potential and innovation readiness.

AgritechAI+14
€250K
Innovate UK logo
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Innovate UK Smart Grants

🇬🇧Innovate UK · United Kingdom

Funds United Kingdom technology ventures across broad sectors through competitive grants for deep technology and innovation.

AgritechAI+13
£25K – £2M
NASA Space Technology Mission Directorate — Flight Opportunities logo
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NASA TechFlights

🇺🇸NASA Flight Opportunities · United States

Funds U.S.-based industry, academia, and non-profit organizations flight-testing space technologies on commercial suborbital and orbital vehicles.

SpaceHardware+3
Ettevõtluse ja Innovatsiooni Sihtasutus (EIS) logo
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Innovation Loan (Innovatsioonilaen)

🇪🇪EIS · Estonia

Offers research teams and institutions for Innovation Loan Continuous in artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and climate technology.

AIBiotech+8
€5M
National Security Innovation Network logo
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NSIN Propel

🇺🇸NSIN · United States

Supports startups advancing national security technology through a focused two-stage accelerator.

DefenseAerospace+3
National Security Innovation Network logo
Discontinued

NSIN Vector Cohort

🇺🇸NSIN · United States

Supports early national security ventures through a cohort-based acceleration and dual-use marketplace.

DefenseAI+4
$50K
SpaceWERX logo
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SpaceWERX Orbital Prime

🇺🇸SpaceWERX · United States

Funds U.S. small businesses developing on-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing technologies through SpaceWERX SBIR/STTR contracts.

AerospaceDefense+4
$250K
EUREKA Network logo
Open

Globalstars

EUREKA · Global / Multinational

Funds joint research and development projects that pair an organisation from a EUREKA member country with an independent partner in a market outside the network, such as Japan, Taiwan, India or Uruguay.

Sep'26

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