So people say you must settle for a house only of the proportion that you can manage. Building huge houses and not using a major portion of it might just be a case of wasting money and real estate. But then if you want to buy the worlds smallest house let me tell you that not even a mite can fit through its door, its really the smallest.
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Using a new nanorobotic system, some French Scientists have built a microhouse’ which sits on top of an optical fibre which is just 75 microns thick. Now that’s just about the size of the thickness of your hair! If you are thinking that such small house won’t be a house, this one has all the detail you expect in a house. It has a front door, a few windows and even the roof is tiled.
The house was built by a team of French Scientists from the Femto-ST Institute and it was published in the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology on Friday. The team made use of a new technology called uRobotex that uses a series of technologies like a gas injection device, a focused ion beam etc. Scientists used a mix of origami and nanometer precise robotics to make the house. It is the focused ion beam that acts like scissors, tracing and cutting out the shape of the house. Gas injection system sticks the edges of the structure together so that it can maintain its shape.
So you think this is all a waste of money? After all you are building a house nobody can live. But then there is more to it. This is not just about the house as much as it is about the technology involved to make it. With this advancement, optical fibres as thin as human hair can be inserted into inaccessible locations like jet engines and blood vessels to detect radiation levels or viral molecules,’ the study noted.
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