Ouster Inc Launches Stereolabs ZED X Nano

Published: 2026-04-13 08:50:35 ET OUST

Published on 04/13/2026 at 08:50 am EDT

Ouster, Inc. announced the release of the Stereolabs ZED X Nano, a compact wrist-mount stereo camera engineered for robotic manipulation, imitation learning, and high-throughput data collection in the Physical AI era. Stereolabs ZED X Nano was designed from the ground up to solve these problems. Measuring 40% smaller in height than comparable solutions, the camera mounts directly onto robotic wrists and end-of-arm tooling where every millimeter matters. It leverages the same 1920×1200 global shutter sensor trusted across the flagship ZED X camera line, capturing high-resolution RGB and depth images at up to 120fps for training data and manipulation.

Durability is designed in. Sporting an onboard vibration-proof IMU, the camera is powered by ruggedized GMSL2 connection and next-generation cabling engineered for the repeated motion and cable stress of robotic arms, replacing fragile USB-C with an industrial-grade link that carries video up to 15 meters with EMI resistance and locking connectors. At the heart of the ZED X Nano is an ultra-low-latency capture pipeline with a fully zero-copy path from sensor to GPU, with frames flowing directly into NVIDIA hardware encoders and AI inference pipelines simultaneously.

For data collection teams, this means higher-throughput dataset capture at full resolution. For deployment teams, it means running perception, segmentation, and policy networks in parallel on the same frames with more GPU headroom for the models that matter. Depth is powered by Stereolabs's Neural Depth Engine, the leading AI stereo depth system with sub-millimeter accuracy in the Z-axis while delivering significantly better lateral (XY) positioning than traditional structured-light or time-of-flight cameras, a critical advantage for grasp pose estimation, fine placement, and assembly tasks where lateral error directly translates to manipulation failure.

With a minimal depth sensing range of 3cm, the camera can also sense closer than comparable solutions in the market. ZED X Nano is the latest Stereolabs product to offer first-class native integration with NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Isaac Lab for sim-to-real transfer, as well as native ROS and ROS 2 support. Teams building imitation learning or reinforcement learning pipelines can capture high-fidelity demonstrations, train in simulation with matched camera models, and deploy to hardware, all on the same sensor and software stack.

The ZED X Nano is available for pre-order starting. For technical specifications, pricing, and integration details, shipping begins May 2026.