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- 1Cognex to buy Intel spinout RealSense for $500M▼A box arrives a few cm off-target and an automation robot misses it entirely. To automate the real world, machines must
Cognex Corporation has agreed to acquire RealSense, a 3D camera spinout from Intel, for roughly $500 million. The deal aims to expand Cognex's machine vision business into robotic perception, addressing a basic weakness in factory automation: robots struggle when objects arrive even a few centimetres off-target, since reliable real-world automation requires machines that can see in 3D.