Elon Musk building 'Iron Man'-inspired laboratory

Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man. (Marvel.com)

SpaceX and Tesla Motors founder Elon Musk made headlines recently publishing his plans for the futuristic Hyperloop transportation.

Now, fueling the comparison often drawn between Musk and Tony Stark, aka Iron Man, Musk revealed in a Twitter exchange with the movie's director Jon Favreau that he'd "figured out how to design rocket parts just w[ith] hand movements."

Favreau asked Musk if this new technology, which Mush teased he would reveal in a video next week, was "Like in Iron Man?" See Musk's full response on Twitter below: