When the Cylons come, here’s hoping they have a soft spot for Pensacola.

If the robot overlords of “Battlestar Galactica” fame become reality in our lifetime, it may be due in no small part to the work going on at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition here in Pensacola.

Researchers at IHMC are now working on HexRunner, who is eclipsing robotics records as you read this.

“Big Hex” was built late last year. he is the latest product of an award-winning, nationally renown robotics research family that putting Pensacola on the map as a place where all the robot action is.

Check out the IHMC’s latest YouTube video to see what Big Hex can do: