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The Amazon Research Awards robotics call is one of seven ARA tracks and funds academic work at the intersection of AI and physical robots, with award decisions weighted toward scientific quality, creativity and potential for impact at scale.
Each award pairs up to USD 50,000 in unrestricted funds with up to USD 50,000 in AWS Promotional Credits, plus an assigned Amazon research contact and access to AWS tutorials and hands-on sessions with Amazon scientists and engineers - the industry contact is often the more durable benefit. The technical scope is specific and worth reading closely before writing.
AI for Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction covers multi-modal perception, task grounding from human instructions, understanding object dynamics, embodiment effects, legibility of robot intent and multi-modal communication strategies. Autonomous Navigation covers geometry-aware navigation, multi-modal perception integration, reinforcement learning for object interaction and scalable data generation.
Manipulation spans cluttered and unstructured environments including occlusion, stacking, packing and non-prehensile manipulation, physical reasoning and world models, and data for manipulation through scenario synthesis, cross-embodiment transfer and synthetic data.
A fourth area, Safety-Critical Control and Safe Reinforcement Learning, covers safe manipulation, compliant body control, RL verification and human detection and localisation. Proposals are capped at three pages excluding appendices and must come from a principal investigator at an academic institution, with one co-PI permitted.
ARA runs recurring cycles; the Spring 2026 window ran 25 March to 13 May 2026 with decision letters in August 2026, and applicants should watch the ARA site for the next call rather than assuming a fixed annual date.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Eligible applicants are principal investigators at academic institutions; each proposal must be submitted by a primary investigator and one co-PI is permitted. Full requirements are set out on the Amazon Research Awards Program Rules and Eligibility page. Proposals should be no longer than three pages excluding appendices, must use the provided template, and may request AWS promotional credits alongside a detailed research budget. Funding decisions are based on the quality of scientific content, creativity, and potential for impact at scale. The robotics call covers four topic areas: AI for Robotics and Human-Robot Interaction, including multi-modal perception, task grounding from human instructions, object dynamics understanding, embodiment effects, legibility of robot intent and multi-modal communication strategies; Autonomous Navigation, including geometry-aware navigation, multi-modal perception integration, reinforcement learning for object interaction and scalable data generation; Manipulation, covering cluttered and unstructured environments such as occlusion, stacking, packing and non-prehensile manipulation, physical reasoning and world models, and data for manipulation through scenario synthesis, cross-embodiment transfer and synthetic data; and Safety-Critical Control and Safe Reinforcement Learning, covering safe manipulation, compliant body control, RL verification and human detection and localisation. Awards average up to USD 50,000 in unrestricted funds plus up to USD 50,000 in AWS Promotional Credits. Amazon Research Awards runs recurring calls: the Spring 2026 submission window ran 25 March to 13 May 2026 at 11:59 PM Pacific with decision letters in August 2026, and prospective applicants should monitor amazon.science for the opening of the next cycle. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows awards average up to USD 50,000 in unrestricted funds plus up to USD 50,000 in AWS Promotional Credits, so a full award is worth approximately USD 100,000 in combined cash and cloud value. amount_min reflects the unrestricted cash component alone and amount_max the combined cash-plus-credits total. Recipients also receive an Amazon research contact and training resources including AWS tutorials and hands-on sessions with Amazon scientists and engineers. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Amazon Research Awards Robotics Call for Proposals for AI for Robotics, Autonomous Navigation, Manipulation and Safe Reinforcement Learning is funded by Amazon (Amazon Science, Amazon Research Awards programme, with AWS promotional credits). Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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The Merck Stimulating Innovative Research Grant Program 2026 includes a dedicated grant topic for artificial intelligence in cell culture media and process development, offering up to EUR 150,000 per year for up to 3 years. The program accelerates innovation through collaborative research, early engagement with industry experts, and translation of novel ideas into practical solutions. In 2026, priority areas also include in-vitro models for neuroinflammatory diseases (EUR 250,000/year for 2 years) and innovative approaches to contaminated materials remediation (EUR 150,000/year for 2 years). The two-stage application process begins with non-confidential submissions, followed by deep-dive workshops where finalists collaborate with Merck scientists and managers to jointly optimize proposals. The AI-specific grant focuses on applying machine learning and AI to optimize cell culture media formulation, bioprocess parameter optimization, and manufacturing quality control.
The Sony Research Award Program is Sony's principal channel for funding external academic research, and the Focused Research Award is its collaborative track: up to 150,000 dollars for focused joint research between a university or research institute and Sony. The 2026 research areas are unusually broad for a corporate program and cover most of the modern AI stack alongside Sony's hardware interests - AI and large language models, computer vision, machine learning, robotics, human-computer interaction, affective computing, speech and language technologies, audio technologies, RF sensing, wireless communications, cybersecurity, sports technology, digital humans, generative AI, content creation and neural rendering, plus device-level areas including MicroLED and optical metasurfaces. For AI and robotics groups this makes it one of the wider corporate calls available, though the breadth is deceptive: Sony funds work that connects to its own research agenda, and proposals are strongest when there is an identifiable Sony research counterpart for the collaboration. Eligibility is tightly drawn around the principal investigator rather than the institution. The PI must be a full-time faculty member or researcher at a recognized institution - Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor or equivalent researcher - and must be able to supervise PhD students. Co-PIs are permitted but must be from the same institution and meet the same requirements, which rules out the cross-institutional consortia common in public funding. The 2026 deadline is 15 September 2026 at 11:59pm Pacific, with a separate India-specific time given as 16 September 2026. Submission guidelines are on the Sony Research Award Program site.
The Sony Research Award Program is Sony's principal academic collaboration instrument, and the Focused Research Award track funds joint work between university faculty and Sony Research on a published list of specific problems rather than open-ended investigator-defined topics. The 2026 cycle carries ten focus areas, most of which sit squarely in modern AI: internal mechanisms of multimodal generative models for content creation, knowledge representation and reasoning for graph-based modelling, psychology-informed user modelling for content streaming, post-training of speech language models, AI-powered visual technology, digital human content creation for sports, provenance proofs for AI-generated derivative content, and long-term memory for sequential decision-making in gaming. Awards are up to 150,000 dollars per year for a one-year research period with possible renewal, paid as a single all-inclusive sum. Because the tracks are tightly specified, the decisive factor in a competitive proposal is demonstrable alignment with the named focus area and with the Sony research group that owns it - a strong proposal against an adjacent problem generally does worse than a merely good proposal against the stated one. Eligibility is restricted to full-time professors or researchers qualified to supervise PhD students; adjunct faculty and professors emeritus are excluded. The 2026 application deadline is 15 September 2026.
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