Perhaps not as exciting as it sounds, though useful nonetheless.
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/06/hulc-exoskeleton.html
Hey even Iron Man had to start somewhere.
Once again. Fact meets fiction. A number of years ago, the comic strip "Modesty Blaise" featured a storyline in which the villains used an exoskeleton, similar to this one, to rob a gold train and then get away with the gold.