Watch This Birdlike Robot Fly and Swim
Jesse Orrall Senior Video Producer Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET. He covers future tech, sustainability and the social impact of technology. He is co-host of CNET's "What The Future" series and Executive Producer of "Experts React." Aside from making videos, he's a certified SCUBA diver with a passion for music, films, history and ecology.
- ▪Jesse Orrall Senior Video Producer Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET.
- ▪He covers future tech, sustainability and the social impact of technology.
- ▪He is co-host of CNET's "What The Future" series and Executive Producer of "Experts React." Aside from making videos, he's a certified SCUBA diver with a passion for music, films, history and ecology.
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| Original publisher | CNET |
| Canonical URL | https://www.cnet.com/videos/watch-this-birdlike-robot-fly-and-swim/ |
| Publication time | 2026-08-10T12:42:19Z |
| Retrieval time | 2026-08-10T13:05:45.059Z |
| Last seen | 2026-08-10T13:05:45.059Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | F2hlSAO7EZgl · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Jesse Orrall Senior Video Producer Jesse Orrall (he/him/his) is a Senior Video Producer for CNET. He covers future tech, sustainability and the social impact of technology. He is co-host of CNET's "What The Future" series and Executive Producer of "Experts React." Aside from making videos, he's a certified SCUBA diver with a passion for music, films, history and ecology. See full bio The Latest from Jesse Watch This Birdlike Robot Fly and Swim Living Underwater in 2026: New Ocean Habitat Just Dropped New Humanoid Robot with ‘Smart Skin’ (I Touched It) Latest Videos Galaxy Z Fold 8 Review: Small but Mighty – and Pricey 4 hours ago Is Google’s Pixel 11 Lineup Worth the Hype? 6 hours ago Google Pixel 11: Higher Price, Less RAM? 6 hours ago How I Got the New Siri AI to Actually Help Me…
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