ZED 2i
ZED 2i is Stereolabs rugged stereo camera for robotics, drones and spatial AI. It combines depth sensing, visual-inertial tracking, IMU data and optional IP66 protection for navigation, mapping, object detection and outdoor machine-vision workflows.
Facts
- Company: Stereolabs
- Product type: Perception Sensor
- Status: Commercial
Market context
Flagship stereo camera for robotics and industrial environments.
- 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 2i 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
Workflow
Depth sensing, visual perception, edge processing, object detection, tracking and robot awareness.
Capability
Depth Sensing, Stereo Vision
Deployment environment
Robotics, automation and edge-AI systems that need sensing, depth perception, vision processing or local compute.
Specifications
- Core Functions: Neural depth sensing, spatial object detection, 3D mapping, positional tracking and SLAM inputs
- Interface: USB 3.1
- Environmental Rating: IP66
- Dimensions: 175.25 x 30.25 x 43.10 mm
- Baseline: 120 mm
- Operating Temperature: -10 C to +50 C
- Video Output: 2K at 15 FPS; 1080p at 30/15 FPS; 720p at 60/30/15 FPS; 376p at 100/60/30/15 FPS
- Depth Fps: Up to 100 Hz
- Weight G: 230 g
- Depth Range: 0.3 m to 20 m with 2.1 mm lens; 1.5 m to 35 m with 4 mm lens
- Ideal Depth Range: 0.3 m to 12 m with 2.1 mm lens; 1.5 m to 20 m with 4 mm lens
- Depth Technology: Neural stereo depth sensing
- Motion Sensors: Accelerometer, gyroscope, barometer, magnetometer and temperature sensors
- Pose Update Rate: Up to 100 Hz
- Pose Drift: Translation 0.35%; rotation 0.005 deg/m without loop correction
- Lens Options: 2.1 mm or 4 mm lens; optional polarizer
- Field Of View: 110 deg H x 70 deg V x 120 deg D max with 2.1 mm lens; 72 deg H x 44 deg V x 81 deg D max with 4 mm lens
- Image Sensors: Dual 4 MP sensors with 2-micron pixels
- Connector: USB 3.0 Type-C with dual locking screws
- Mounting: 1/4-20 UNC thread mount
- Price Usd: $499 base; $549 with polarizer USD
Tags
- Peer Group: Depth Camera, Perception Sensor
- Workflow: Robot Perception, Mobile Robot Navigation
- Capability: Depth Sensing, Stereo Vision
- Stack Layer: Sensing layer
Timeline / Research
- 2026-06-11 - Research Publication - Comparing Commercial Depth Sensor Accuracy for Medical Applications - Depth estimation has numerous medical and surgical applications. We benchmark four depth sensors on a porcine bon…
- 2026-02-10 - Research Publication - Finite-time Stable Pose Estimation on TSE(3) using Point Cloud and Velocity Sensors - This work presents a finite-time stable pose estimator (FTS-PE) for rigid bodies undergoing rotat…
- 2025-12-03 - Research Publication - A Modular Architecture Design for Autonomous Driving Racing in Controlled Environments - This paper presents a modular autonomous driving architecture for Formula Student Driverless c…
- 2025-11-30 - Research Publication - Think Fast: Real-Time Kinodynamic Belief-Space Planning for Projectile Interception - Intercepting fast moving objects, by its very nature, is challenging because of its tight time co…
- 2025-09-19 - Research Publication - Imagination at Inference: Synthesizing In-Hand Views for Robust Visuomotor Policy Inference - Visual observations from different viewpoints can significantly influence the performance…
- 2025-09-02 - Research Publication - Manipulation as in Simulation: Enabling Accurate Geometry Perception in Robots - Modern robotic manipulation primarily relies on visual observations in a 2D color space for skill lear…
- 2025-08-21 - Research Publication - A Real-Time Diminished Reality Approach to Privacy in MR Collaboration - Diminished reality (DR) refers to the digital removal of real-world objects by compositing background content…
- 2025-06-29 - Research Publication - ParticleFormer: A 3D Point Cloud World Model for Multi-Object, Multi-Material Robotic Manipulation - 3D world models (i. e. The work is explicitly tied to ZED 2i, making the product b…
- 2025-01-13 - Research Publication - Stereo-depth camera comparison benchmarks Stereolabs ZED 2i for robotics perception - The paper compares stereo-depth cameras used in robotics, including Stereolabs ZED 2/2i reference…
- 2024-09-01 - Research Publication - Depth accuracy analysis of the ZED 2i Stereo Camera in an indoor Environment - The paper analyzes ZED 2i depth accuracy in an indoor environment. The title names ZED 2i directly, maki…
- 2023-07-21 - Research Publication - A Benchmarking Study of Vision-Based Robotic Grasping Algorithms: A Comparative Analysis - We present a benchmarking study of vision-based robotic grasping algorithms and provide a co…
- 2023-02-10 - Research Publication - ZED 2i paper uses depth sensing for robotic EV charging-socket detection - The paper studies automatic electric-vehicle charging socket detection for robot-based charging. The system…
- 2022-05-17 - Research Publication - ZED 2i skeleton-tracking paper evaluates automatic body-orientation detection indoors - The paper evaluates automatic body-orientation detection from skeleton-tracking data for indoor…
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