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ZED Cameras

About

About ZED Cameras

Stereolabs ZED cameras use passive stereo vision to calculate depth from synchronised left and right images. The range spans USB cameras for development to rugged GMSL2 models such as ZED X, which carries an IP67 enclosure for robots and vehicles operating outdoors or in industrial environments.

The ZED SDK adds visual odometry, object detection, spatial mapping and multi-camera localisation. This lets developers use one camera family for perception, navigation and digital-twin capture, with processing deployed on host PCs or NVIDIA Jetson edge computers.

Observed use

Exact-product configurations are shown without inferring supply, purchase, customer status, standard fit, deployment or partnership.

  • Honda Autonomous Work Vehicle configuration

    Operational - Mounted - Physical - Honda Autonomous Work Vehicle uses ZED Cameras in the configuration documented by Stereolabs.

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  • Akara autonomous disinfection robot configuration

    Operational - Mounted - Physical - Akara autonomous disinfection robot uses ZED Cameras in the configuration documented by Stereolabs.

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  • autonomous ski robot configuration

    Physical Demo - Mounted - Physical - autonomous ski robot uses ZED Cameras in the configuration documented by Stereolabs.

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  • DROID robotics research data-collection rigs configuration

    Research Experiment - Mounted - Physical - DROID robotics research data-collection rigs uses ZED Cameras in the configuration documented by Stereolabs.

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  • OpenZeka competition rovers configuration

    Physical Demo - Mounted - Physical - OpenZeka competition rovers uses ZED Cameras in the configuration documented by Stereolabs.

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Research

  • Application of the ZED Depth Sensor for Painting Robot Vision System Development

    2021-08-18 - Research Publication - An external research team used a ZED stereo depth camera to record paintable surfaces, separate obstacles from wall regions and recover point-cloud coordinates for a painting robot.

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Timeline

  • Stereolabs vision integrates across autonomous tractor platforms

    2023-11-14 - Deployment - Stereolabs documented ZED cameras and its perception platform across CNH Industrial New Holland and Case IH electric tractors. The integrations also covered cabinless autonomous tractor units from LEMKEN and KRONE. ZED stereo depth and perception were used as inputs for navigation and autonomous agricultural operation.

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Context

Market context

ZED Cameras are Stereolabs stereo vision cameras for depth sensing, spatial awareness, object detection and robot perception.

  • Target environment: Robotics, automation and edge-AI systems that need sensing, depth perception, vision processing or local compute.
  • Workflow context: Depth sensing, visual perception, edge processing, object detection, tracking and robot awareness.
  • Customer context: Robot builders, machine-vision teams, automation engineers and edge-AI developers.
  • Deployment model: Commercial or available product positioned for customer use, integration or developer adoption.
  • Commercial maturity: Publicly presented as commercial or available, with maturity depending on deployment scale and support coverage.
  • Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on accuracy, latency, environmental robustness, SDK quality, compute budget and integration with the robot stack.
  • Market position: ZED Cameras sits in the perception and compute layer that helps robots understand or process the physical world.
  • Adjacent products: ZED cameras, Ouster lidar, Cognex VisionPro, NVIDIA Jetson

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