ZED 2i Context

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

Audience

Robot OEMs

Workflow

Depth sensing, visual perception, edge processing, object detection, tracking and robot awareness.

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
  • 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: 230
  • 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
  • Operating Temperature: -10 C to +45 C

Tags

  • Peer Group: Depth Cameras
  • Workflow: Robot perception, Mobile Robot Navigation
  • Capability: Depth Sensing, Stereo Vision
  • Stack Layer: Sensing stack, Robot perception-sensor stack

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