ZED Mini Context

Market context

ZED Mini is a compact Stereolabs stereo camera for AR, VR and lightweight robotics applications that need depth sensing and tracking.

  • 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 Mini 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

Developers

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

  • Dimensions: 124.5 x 30.5 x 26.5 mm
  • Baseline: 63
  • Operating Temperature: 0 C to +45 C
  • Video Output: 2K at 15 FPS; 1080p at 30/15 FPS; 720p at 60/30/15 FPS; WVGA at 100 FPS
  • Depth Fps: Up to 100 Hz
  • Depth Range: 0.1 m to 15 m
  • Ideal Depth Range: 0.1 m to 9 m
  • Depth Technology: Stereo depth sensing
  • Motion Sensors: Accelerometer and gyroscope; 800 Hz data rate
  • Pose Update Rate: Up to 100 Hz
  • Pose Drift: Translation 1.0%; rotation 0.013 deg/m without loop correction
  • Field Of View: 102 deg H x 57 deg V x 118 deg D max
  • Weight: 60
  • Image Sensors: Dual 4 MP sensors with large 2-micron pixels
  • Connector: USB 3.0 Type-C port
  • Lens: 3.06 mm focal length; f/2.0 aperture (rev2)
  • Price: $399

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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