# Brown Team Uses Dog-Inspired Cues to Boost Robot Fetch Accuracy to 89%

- slug: brown-team-uses-dog-inspired-cues-to-boost-robot-fetch-accuracy-to-89
- date: 2026-03-15
- category: Artificial Intelligence

Brown University researchers say they’ve improved robot object-finding by combining two human signals most systems treat separately: language and pointing gestures.

In work led by Ivy Xiao He, the team reports an **89% success rate** in complex object-retrieval environments using a new planning ...

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