{"id":247026,"date":"2026-11-10T10:09:23","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/extra-robotic-thumb-lets-wearers-complete-two-handed-tasks-with-one-hand"},"modified":"2026-11-10T10:09:23","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T16:09:23","slug":"extra-robotic-thumb-lets-wearers-complete-two-handed-tasks-with-one-hand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/11\/extra-robotic-thumb-lets-wearers-complete-two-handed-tasks-with-one-hand","title":{"rendered":"Extra robotic thumb lets wearers complete two-handed tasks with one hand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>To complete many everyday tasks and chores, humans typically use both of their hands. For instance, when opening a bottle, they use one hand to hold the bottle and the other to twist its cap. Researchers at the University of California San Diego recently developed EgoThumb, a robotic thumb that could allow people to complete some tasks that generally require both hands using only one.<\/p>\n<p>Their proposed robotic system, introduced in <a href=\"https:\/\/arxiv.org\/abs\/2610.37582\" target=\"_blank\">a preprint posted on <i>arXiv<\/i><\/a>, captures images with a small camera, which are then analyzed by an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm trained to plan the thumb\u2019s movements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe initial inspiration came from soldering wires,\u201d Jiawei Fu, co-first author of the paper, told Tech Xplore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To complete many everyday tasks and chores, humans typically use both of their hands. For instance, when opening a bottle, they use one hand to hold the bottle and the other to twist its cap. Researchers at the University of California San Diego recently developed EgoThumb, a robotic thumb that could allow people to complete [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-247026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-science","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}