The video includes an interview where Umedachi discusses his work, potential applications for the technology, and inspiration.
Unsurprisingly, Ghost in the Shell is one of the things that inspired his work in soft-body robotics.
Over on Tokyo Otaku Mode, Sean Cardeno shared some pretty impressive video of his friend’s husband the robotics engineer (whom he apparently didn’t know was a robotics engineer) doing a quick demonstration of synthetic soft-body robotics.