A SEED funding organisation created to preserve Scotland's place as a world leader in robotic sensors is doubling the amount of cash it can dole out to projects.

The Scottish Sensors Systems Centre (S3C), which is jointly run by Glasgow and Aberdeen universities, will now offer maximum awards of £40,000 to research projects into sensors with potentially wide industrial application.

It also hopes to be selected to become one of the Scottish Funding Council's new innovation centres, which could help increase its funding pot from the current £1 million up to £25m over five years.

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