Movies featuring Tony Stark have dominated the box office for years.

But will his Iron Man Armor ever dominate the battlefield?

As advancements in robotics progress at an ever-increasing rate, it seems like a possibility.

So how close are we to producing Iron Man Armor in real life?

You're listening to be amazed.

Creating human-like automaton's captured the imagination of inventors as far back as 1868 with patents filed for the steam man.

It was a human-shaped steam-powered machine designed to pull carts.

The steam man is a far cry from an Iron Man suit, but Tony Stark, at an estimated net worth of $12.4 billion, has more resources

and knowledge than the Steam Man's inventor could ever dream about. Fast forward to modern

times and military engineers like Lockheed Martin have started to create rudimentary versions

of Iron Man's suit called exoskeletons.

Lockheed Martin joined forces with the US military to test out a lower body armorless exoskeleton called the Onyx

that helps troops walk farther by reducing the loads on their backs.

The Onyx still has to undergo some rigorous testing,

but preliminary results show that the device effectively

reduces strain on troops.

Exoskeletons aren't only used by the military either.

The re-walk is an exoskeleton that enables

paraplegics to walk just like James Rhodes did

at the end of Captain America Civil War.

But unless you also have Tony Stark as your friend, you won't see many of these out and about.

At $85,000 per unit, many individuals can't afford it.

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