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Cognitive Technologies

Russian software corporation

Cognitive Technologies is a Russian software corporation that develops corporate business applications, AI-based advanced driver assistance systems. Founded in 1993 in Moscow (Russia), the company has offices in Eastern Europe, with R&D Centers in Russia.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

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Cognitive Technologies is a Russian software corporation that develops corporate business applications, AI-based advanced driver assistance systems.2

The story

Cognitive Technologies was founded in 1993 by Olga Uskova and Vladimir Arlazarov. The first employees previously worked in the team that developed the first world computer chess champion "Kaissa". The first programs developed by Cognitive Technologies were optical image and character recognition software – Tiger and CuneiForm.

In February 2015 Cognitive Technologies and Kamaz, Russian Dakar Rally-winning truck manufacturer, started working on the self-driving Kamaz truck project. The first field tests took place in June 2015.

In 2015 Andrey Chernogorov was appointed CEO of the company.

From Wikipedia’s article on Cognitive Technologies, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Products and brands

Products

Cognitive Technologies develops business application software and self-driving vehicle artificial intelligence. The main products are:

C-pilot, AI-based ADAS

E1 Evfrat – electronic workflow system

CognitiveLot – e-purchasing systems

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Cooperation with global companies

Under the contract signed between Cognitive Technologies and Hewlett-Packard, all scanners sold in Russia had text recognition software developed by Cognitive Technologies. It was the first contract with HP for an Eastern European company.

Afterwards, Cognitive Technologies signed OEM contracts and business agreements with several global IT-companies, including IBM, Canon, Corel, Samsung, Xerox, Brother, Epson, and Olivetti.

In 1998 Cognitive Technologies became the first company in Eastern Europe to get the Oracle Complementary Software Provider status.

In 2001 Cognitive Technologies sold its Russian language speech corpus to Intel.

In 2010 Cognitive Technologies sold its text parsing module to Yandex. The company also signed an agreement with NVIDIA join efforts in the development of intelligent document recognition technologies.

From Wikipedia’s article on Cognitive Technologies, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.3

Timeline

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