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SPRIND Next Frontier Robotics
SPRIND’s Next Frontier Robotics Challenge funds European teams developing next-generation robotics across a four-stage, 36-month challenge. Two tracks: integrated platforms, and novel hardware components. Funding is an individual fixed-price contract based on the team’s own cost estimate.
Key facts
- Funding
- Up to €7.2M per team
- Maturity
- TRL 3–7
- Deadlines
- 22 Oct 2026, 18:00 CEST
- Best for
- European teams building integrated robot platforms or breakthrough robotic hardware.
- Issuing agency
- SPRIND — German Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation
What evaluators reward
What wins SPRIND Next Frontier Robotics
The points an application is scored on, and the ones we work through with you.
- Up to €7.2M per team, non-dilutive
- No co-financing required
- Two tracks: integrated platforms or hardware components
- 36 months across four stages
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