  Recently, graduate student Jim Jennings, research associate <a href="http://simlab.cs.cornell.edu/people/daniela.rus.html"> Daniela Rus,</a> graduate student <a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/rbrown/rbrown.html"> Russell Brown</a>,							   <a href="ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/brd/brd.html"> Professor Bruce Donald</a>,    and lab alumnus <a href="http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jar/jar.html"> Jonathan Rees</a> (now at MIT), developed a <a href="#scheme"> team of autonomous mobile robots</a> that can perform sophisticated <a href="#distributed-manipulation"> distributed manipulation tasks</a> (such as <a href="#iros95"> moving furniture</a>).  The robots run robust SPMD protocols that are completely asynchronous and require no communication. Grad student <a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/karl/home.html"> Karl B&ouml;hringer</a>,  <a href="ftp://ftp.cs.cornell.edu/pub/brd/brd.html"> Professor Bruce Donald</a>,   and EE Professor Noel MacDonald, are building a <a href="#mems"> massively parallel array of microactuators</a> in the Cornell National Nanofabrication Laboratory. <a href="http://www.cs.cornell.edu/Info/People/karl/Cinema/"> The array is a SCREAM chip containing over 11,000 actuators in 1 square centemeter,</a> and can orient small parts without sensory feedback. Our microfabricated actuator arrays could be used to construct programmable parts-feeders (at any scale), or to build self-propelled IC's (walking VLSI chips.)  <h2>
