The company we work for loves to follow advances in sensing, computer vision, and terrain perception because those are areas where as technology advances, the more we will be able to do. The manipulation research is one of the things that I like to follow personally, and in particular manipulation research that is focused on improving our understanding of complex, friction-based interactions such as sliding and pushing, or in the case of moving compliant materials like ropes. As we move away from just pinching, lifting, moving, and dropping things, we are seeing a much more meaningful interaction with the environment, instead of just pinching, lifting, moving, and dropping. This kind of research is going to unlock the potential for mobile manipulators as well as open up a whole range of possibilities for robots to interact with the world in a more rich and meaningful way as a result of that type of manipulation research.