We had our origin as Echols Scientific Products in the early 1980s, which had as its field the design of electronic instruments for neuroscience. Our first substantial project was to design a Robinson type eye tracker (“eye coil system”) for use in oculomotor physiology labs. Those have been in production for almost 25 years. Naturally they have evolved over that interval.

   We incorporated as Riverbend Instruments Inc. in 1994 after splitting off from Riverbend Electronics. Our primary focus has remained on neuroscience: we designed the electronics to automate the measurement of focal length of the eye in behaving animals. More recently, we designed and brought to the market the artifact zapper, a device which learns the waveform of the stimulus artifact in neural stimulation and recording experiments, and cancels the artifact while leaving the underlying neural activity.