Cognex Corporation is the world’s leading provider of vision systems, vision software, vision sensors, and industrial ID readers used in manufacturing automation. Cognex vision helps companies improve product quality, eliminate production errors, lower manufacturing costs, and exceed consumer expectations for high quality products at an affordable price.

Cognex serves an international customer base from offices located throughout the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and through a global network of integration and distribution partners. The company is headquartered close to Boston in Natick, Massachusetts, USA.

Cognex was founded in 1981 by Dr. Robert J. Shillman, a lecturer in human visual perception at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. Shillman decided to leave academia to start Cognex, investing his life savings of $100,000 into the company. He invited two MIT graduate students to embark on this business venture with him, offering free bicycles to convince them to leave MIT for a summer. What began as a summer job turned out to be the start of a career, as they stayed on to help co-found the company. These three individuals gave Cognex its start – and its name, which was derived from the phrase “Cognition Experts.”

Other books in this series
Tales of the THIRD DIMENSION
The Mystery at VISION DRIVE
The Masters of the BOTTOM LINE
The MACHINE VISION Diaries
A Study in YELLOW
Strange Affairs on ALL HALLOWS’ EVE
A Gathering of COGNOIDS
The Adventure of the ONE-EYED READER

To Cognoids around the world and everyone who believes in the power of machine vision to make the world a better place to live.