A robot with artificial organs, limbs and other body parts will make its American debut at the New York Comic Con on Friday, Oct. 18, two days before the premiere of a TV movie about a team of engineers working to assemble the functioning body.

Built in the United Kingdom, the 6-foot-5-inch tall cyborg has artificial body parts designed and developed by scientists and a team of engineers from around the world, Yahoo reported. The term "bionic man" originated from a popular TV show called The Six Million Dollar Man, which recorded the quests of Steve Austin, a former astronaut whose body was reconstructed using artificial parts. 

The artificial man is a focus of the Smithsonian Channel documentary that will air on Sunday, Oct. 20 at 9 p.m. titled The Incredible Bionic Man. It chronicles the efforts to assemble an operational body using artificial parts, such as retina implants.

The artificial parts come from 17 manufacturers. Richard Walker, managing director of Shadow Robot Co. and the lead roboticist, said the first time the team assembled together was for the documentary itself.

"(It's) an attempt to showcase just how far medical science has gotten," he said.

The robot has about 60-70 percent of the same function of a human being, Walker explained. It can sit, stand and walk using a Rex walking machine. It has a functioning heart that has an electronic pump, which circulates artificial blood that also carries oxygen like human blood.

There are still some major parts missing such as a digestive system, liver, skin and brain. The bionic man is cheaper than his $6-million-dollar science fiction counterpart and costs about $1 million.

The bionic man was modeled after a 36-year-old social psychologist named Bertolt Meyer, who was born without his lower left arm and wears a bionic prosthesis.

"We wanted to showcase that the technology can provide esthetic prostheses for people who have lost parts of their faces, for example, their nose, due to an accident or due to, for example, cancer," Meyer said.