Stereolabs

A French stereo-camera company behind the ZED line, acquired by Ouster in 2026.

Stereolabs is a French 3D-vision company founded in 2010 by co-founders Cecile Schmollgruber, Edwin Azzam, and Olivier Braun. Its main product is the ZED line of stereo cameras: two lenses shoot the same scene, and depth is computed through stereo matching rather than by actively projecting light, so it also works outdoors in sunlight; the companion ZED SDK provides depth maps, point clouds, localization, and object detection, with a ROS 2 driver available. The company states it has shipped more than 90,000 ZED cameras to over 10,000 customers. In embodied AI, ZED is commonly used as a head-mounted or third-person camera, and also for streaming stereo video back during teleoperation. In February 2026, LiDAR maker Ouster acquired Stereolabs for $35 million in cash plus 1.8 million shares, making it a wholly owned subsidiary while the original founders stayed on to lead the team.

ExampleEvery capture rig in the DROID dataset pairs two ZED 2 cameras as third-person views, with a ZED Mini mounted on the wrist.

Also called

ZED

Related

Stereolabs ZED · Stereo Camera · Depth Camera · Stereo Matching · DROID (Distributed Robot Interaction Dataset) · Open-TeleVision

Sources

Ouster Acquires StereoLabs（Ouster 投资者新闻，2026-02-09） (Chinese)
Lidar-maker Ouster buys vision company StereoLabs（TechCrunch，2026-02-09）
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As of

2026-02