Here's Shimizu engineer, Maksaki Takeuchi, explaining to BBC World Service programme, CrowdScience, the motivation behind the idea.

以下是清水集团的工程师竹内真崎向 BBC 世界服务节目《大众科学》解释这个想法背后的动机。

Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi suggest a model of knowledge creation – the way that knowledge in a company is built up.

Ikujiro Nonaka 和 Hirotaka Takeuchi 提出了一种知识创造模型——公司知识的积累方式。

And so, one of the things that I coincidentally stumbled into was, my teacher Ms. Takeuchi would catch me cracking jokes and sometimes not paying attention in class.

所以，我碰巧遇到的一件事是，我的老师竹内女士会抓到我在讲笑话，有时还会在课堂上不专心。

In Tokyo, I meet professor Takeuchi who's developed a form of synthetic muscle that can respond to an electric pulse and expand or contract just like a real muscle.

在东京，我遇到了 Takeuchi 教授，他开发了一种合成肌肉， 可以对电脉冲做出反应， 并像真正的肌肉一样扩张或收缩。

I realized this thing that I had been doing in high school, that Ms. Takeuchi told me to do, was actually a gift, and I could perhaps pursue it as a real career.

我意识到我在高中时一直在做的这件事，竹内女士让我做的事情，实际上是一种礼物，也许我可以把它作为一种真正的职业来追求。