Mass.-based tech firm Cognex Corp. expands in Boulder

BOULDER — Massachusetts-based Cognex Corp. (Nasdaq: CGNX) has leased 14,310 square feet of office space at 4990 Pearl East Circle in Boulder where it will expand operations following the acquisition of two tech companies in the Boulder Valley.

Cognex, based just outside Boston in Natick, Mass., manufactures machine vision and barcode reader systems. It has leased the third floor of the building on Pearl East Circle, where it will house employees of two local companies it acquired in late 2016.

Cognex acquired Boulder-based Chiaro Technologies, a maker of a 3-D machine-vision sensor called Cloudburst, and…