#1 I would say it's hand placement is significantly slowing it down. It's putting its hands up when it's not in use, which means excessive hand movements betwee

#1 I would say it's hand placement is significantly slowing it down. It's putting its hands up when it's not in use, which means excessive hand movements between usage (not only time inefficient but also a significant waste of electricity and a burden on its mechanical parts). Aside from that, it's simply processing speed and motor control. Processing power would speed up detection, which would allow it to act faster. Similarly better motor controls would help, especially built in resistance detection so it can tell how much force it's applying. Also it's doing it completely wrong. A human at worst flips the sock over one of their hands, and at best does a sort of tuck & roll on their thumbs and stretches. It seems kind of asinine that researches are trying to replicate human tasks without replicating human dexterity to achieve it with reasonable speed.