# UC San Diego proposes EgoThumb wearable robotic thumb for one-handed completion of two-handed tasks

- Source: Tech Xplore Robotics
- Published: 2026-11-10T14:23:22.000Z
- RoboHot: https://robohot.news/en/items/asgqokqztddov7v9hzvbnqh09
- Original: https://techxplore.com/news/2026-11-extra-robotic-thumb-wearers-tasks.html

## Summary

A team at the University of California San Diego proposed EgoThumb in an arXiv preprint, a wearable robotic thumb driven by a palm-side wide-angle camera and an imitation learning model that can autonomously grasp and stabilize objects, allowing users to complete tasks such as unscrewing bottle caps and stirring tea with one hand.