Cognex Corporation Announces Fourth Quarter Earnings Release Date and Conference Call.

NATICK, Mass. -- Cognex Corporation (NASDAQ: CGNX) will release earnings for the fourth quarter of 2008 on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 after the market closes and will host a conference call that same day at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. The earnings release and conference call are scheduled to coincide with the company's expected filing of its Form 10-K for the year ending December 31, 2008.

The telephone number for the live call is 866-281-6628 (or 703-639-1260 if outside the United States). A replay will begin at approximately 8:00 p.m. eastern time on Tuesday, February 17, 2009 and will run continuously until 11:59 p.m. eastern time on Friday, February 20, 2009. The telephone number for the replay is 888-266-2081 (or 703-925-2533 if outside the United States). The access code for the live call and the replay is 1324430.

Internet users can listen to a real-time audio broadcast of the conference call as well as an archive of the call on Cognex's website at http://www.cognex.com/Investor.

About Cognex Corporation

Cognex Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets machine vision sensors and systems, or devices that can "see." Cognex vision sensors are used in factories around the world to automate the manufacture of a wide range of items and to assure their quality. Cognex is the world's leader in the machine vision industry, having shipped more than 450,000 machine vision systems, representing over $2.5 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company's founding in 1981. In addition to its corporate headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, Cognex also has regional offices and distributors located throughout North America, Japan, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Visit Cognex on-line at http://www.cognex.com/.