Good ideas shouldn't wait
for a rich uncle.
The grants program funds work that makes robotics more open: reference hardware, foundational skills, public datasets and tooling. Funded by the treasury, decided by governance, paid in $LOX with milestone-based tranches.
Open hardware
Reference chassis, grippers and sensor mounts published under open licenses. If your design lowers the cost of a capable robot, the treasury wants it built.
Foundational skills
Navigation, manipulation and perception skills released to the registry with permissive royalty splits — infrastructure the whole ecosystem forks from.
Learning tracks
Courses, workshops and university robotics clubs. The next 10,000 builders need on-ramps, and we pay people to build them.
Fast grants
Under 25k $LOX? A rolling committee decides in two weeks, no governance vote needed. Momentum matters more than ceremony at small sizes.
Milestone tranches
Funds release per shipped milestone, verified against the registry — a published component, a passing sim suite, a merged tool. Ship, unlock, repeat.
No equity, no strings
Grants are not investments. You keep your IP, your royalties and your roadmap — the only ask is that funded work lands open in the registry.
Apply in an afternoon.
One page: what you're building, why it should be open, what it costs. Fast grants decide in two weeks.