Türkiye HIT-Industrial Robot Call — USD 1bn industrial-robotics investment support tranche under HIT-30 (Ministry of Industry and Technology)

Mechanism

HIT-Industrial Robot is one of four sector-specific "çağrı" (calls for applications) opened under the HIT-30 umbrella programme in October 2025 — alongside HIT-AI (USD 1.6bn), HIT-Data Centre (USD 1.5bn) and HIT-Quantum (USD 300m). Each call operationalises a slice of HIT-30's original USD 30bn 2024-2030 envelope against sector-specific eligibility criteria rather than opening the programme's tax/grant/financing toolkit generically.

Eligibility for HIT-Industrial Robot requires manufacturers to commit to a minimum annual production capacity of 5,000 industrial robots, with support also directed at localising critical components — servo motors, reducers (gearboxes), and servo drives — that Türkiye currently imports, plus funding for associated R&D centres. This targets the same import-substitution logic as HIT-30's battery and solar-cell sub-programmes, but for robotics hardware supply chains. The Ministry frames the call against a national goal of 200,000 industrial robots in domestic use by 2030 (installed base was ~26,413 robots as of 2023, growing ~15% y/y), explicitly aiming to shift Türkiye from a robot-importer to a robot-developer/exporter.

GTA logs this single government call as two separate "interventions" (state loan; tax or social insurance relief) under one state act (95018) because its instrument stack spans multiple GTA intervention-type categories — they are one underlying state action, not two.

Downstream implications

• Extends the HIT-30 localisation logic to robotics hardware: the

original HIT-30 filing already listed industrial-robotics among its 37 priority programmes; HIT-Industrial Robot converts that generic inclusion into a concrete, ring-fenced USD 1bn tranche with a named production-scale threshold (5,000 units/year) — the same pattern used for HIT-30's battery and solar-cell sub-programmes.

• Targets upstream component dependency, not just assembly: by

explicitly funding localisation of servo motors, reducers, and servo drives — components historically dominated by Japanese (Yaskawa, Nabtesco, Harmonic Drive) and German suppliers — the call aims at the highest-value-add layer of the robotics supply chain rather than final-assembly capacity alone.

• Severity 3 (quant basis): USD 1bn for the Industrial Robot call alone

is a meaningful but sub-battery-scale slice of the USD 30bn HIT-30 envelope (~3.3%); rated in line with the sibling HIT-Data Centre filing (severity 3) and below the parent HIT-30 filing (severity 4) because this is an implementing tranche, not a new incremental headline commitment, and the 5,000-unit/year eligibility floor concentrates support on a small number of large-scale applicants.

Open questions

• Official Resmi Gazete / Cumhurbaşkanı Kararı reference: the Ministry's

own hit30.sanayi.gov.tr/cagrilar page lists the HIT-Industrial Robot call but does not surface a gazette/decree number; confirm via a future amendment if the formal legal instrument is published separately.

• Award register: as with the parent HIT-30 entry and sibling calls, no

public register of which applicants/projects have been approved under HIT-Industrial Robot has been identified; watch for disclosures once the call closes.

• Companion call (HIT-Quantum USD 300m): filed separately if/when it

clears its own dedup + primary-source checks; do not re-file as a duplicate of this entry.