Each small circuit board contains four infrared sensors that detect anything closer than 1 centimeter.
Of course, the system is totally automated, with infrared sensors for the water and dryer portions.
CarBots can be set to battle mode for multi-player battle via infrared sensors.
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Athletes do triple jumps down a 10-meter lane lined with infrared sensors to determine their energy level before a workout.
Four buttons with infrared sensors on the rotary controller allow switching between different menus, such as audio, apps, communications and navigation.
Searchers aided by a sheriff's helicopter with infrared sensors were on the scene early Thursday hoping to locate Kyndall Jack, 18.
The next generation of environment-sensing cars will use more than just radar and infrared sensors to watch for signs of trouble.
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Infrared sensors pinpoint hand positions and release water from the tap stem.
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The bottom board is home to four AA batteries (NiMH), a pair of motors and wheels, a power connector and switch plus some infrared sensors.
The infrared sensors of the rotary controller automatically detect an approaching hand and the system reacts by displaying menu options even before it is touched.
Equipped with sophisticated cameras, infrared sensors and other detection equipment, the small blimps often float 2, 000 feet over an area to keep a round-the-clock watch.
So if you understand how radio works you can understand radar, and if you understand radar then you can apply that insight to infrared sensors.
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From state-of-the-art baggage screeners to new infrared sensors guarding the shoreline and new walls around the airport, Massport spokesman Phil Orlandella says Logan is not only responding to yesterday's threats.
"The launch of SBIRS GEO-1 heralds a new era for missile warning and other missions enabled by overhead persistent infrared sensors, " said Steve Toner, Northrop Grumman's vice president of OPIR and Azusa Programs.
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In addition to LEGO's famous bricks, the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 set contains a multitude of parts-including motors, infrared sensors and a programmable microcomputer-that allow children to create robots that walk, move or take whatever action they're programmed to do.
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Rooms have infrared sensors that detect body heat, so that staff don't accidentally walk in on guests, and there's a virtual golf club in the basement that lets you simulate a round on 50 of the world's most famous courses.
The systems basically work the same: a series of cameras, lasers or infrared sensors integrated into the car (on the back side of the rear-view mirror, in the bumper or behind the windshield, for instance) monitors lane markings in the road.
The 42- and 47-inch diagonal LCD displays deploy a multitouch screen that uses unique scanning infrared technology, including embedded sensors to provide more accurate touch recognition.
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Equipped with high-definition infrared cameras and ranging (LiDAR) sensors, Ti feeds information to the utility about specific conditions of specific assets at specific places on a transmission line.
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At laboratories at the American Sports Medicine Institute in Alabama and the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, orthopedists and biomechanists place dozens of sensors on pitchers and have them throw in front of a series of infrared cameras that measure their motions and turn the windup into a three-dimensional computer graphic.
It also uses an accelerometer and light sensors to snap an image when a person enters a new environment, and an infrared sensor to take one when it detects the body heat of a person in front of the wearer.
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