Ouster Launches Stereolabs ZED X Nano: A Wrist-Mount Stereo Camera Built for Robotic Manipulation and Physical AI

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 13, 2026--

Ouster, Inc. (Nasdaq: OUST) (“Ouster” or the “Company”), a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI, announced today 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.

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Built for the robotic arm: smaller, tougher, faster

As robotics teams scale imitation learning and reinforcement learning for manipulation tasks, RGB image quality and end-to-end capture latency have become critical bottlenecks. Legacy cameras rely on USB connectivity, capture low-resolution 720p RGB and depth, and require CPU-mediated pipelines that limit throughput and add latency.

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.

Zero-copy pipeline for Physical AI

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.

Neural Depth with sub-millimeter accuracy

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.

Native Integration with NVIDIA® Isaac™ and ROS

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.

“Building on Stereolabs leadership in AI vision and perception solutions, the ZED X Nano allows us to go deeper into the industrial and robotics markets to win new sockets that require smaller form-factor placements,” said Ouster CEO Angus Pacala. "The future of Physical AI depends on massive amounts of high-quality, low-latency image data collected at the edge. With the ZED X Nano, we're giving roboticists a major upgrade to their vision systems, enabling machines to sense, think, act, and learn with unprecedented precision."

The ZED X Nano is available for pre-order starting today. For technical specifications, pricing, and integration details, visit www.stereolabs.com. Shipping begins May 2026.

About Ouster

Ouster (Nasdaq: OUST) is a leader in sensing and perception for Physical AI across industrial, robotics, automotive, and smart infrastructure. With a unified platform of high-performance digital lidar, cameras, AI compute, sensor fusion and perception software, and AI models, Ouster delivers solutions that improve quality of life in the physical world. Headquartered in San Francisco, CA, Ouster has a global presence serving thousands of customers with offices in the Americas, Europe, and Asia-Pacific. For more information about our products, visit www.ouster.com, contact our sales team, or connect with us on X or LinkedIn.

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Stereolabs ZED X Nano: a compact wrist-mount stereo camera engineered for robotic manipulation, imitation learning, and high-throughput data collection.

Stereolabs ZED X Nano: a compact wrist-mount stereo camera engineered for robotic manipulation, imitation learning, and high-throughput data collection.

Stereolabs ZED X Nano: a compact wrist-mount stereo camera engineered for robotic manipulation, imitation learning, and high-throughput data collection.

Stereolabs ZED X Nano: a compact wrist-mount stereo camera engineered for robotic manipulation, imitation learning, and high-throughput data collection.

Iran reversed its decision to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and warned that it would continue to block transit through the strait as long as the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports remained in effect.

The escalating standoff over the critical choke point threatened to deepen the energy crisis roiling the global economy and push the two countries toward renewed conflict, even as mediators expressed confidence that a new deal was within reach.

The strait is closed until the U.S. blockade is lifted, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard navy said Saturday night. Hours earlier, two gunboats from Iran’s Revolutionary Guard opened fire on a tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz, the British military’s United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations center said. It reported that the tanker and crew were safe, without identifying the vessel or its destination.

Roughly one-fifth of the world’s oil passes through the strait and further limits would squeeze the already constrained supply, driving prices higher once again. Meanwhile, a 10-day truce between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon appeared to be holding.

The fighting in the Middle East conflict, which is approaching the two-month mark, has killed at least 3,000 people in Iran, nearly 2,300 in Lebanon, 23 in Israel and more than a dozen in Gulf Arab states. Thirteen U.S. service members have also been killed.

Here is the latest:

Iran’s parliamentary Speaker Mohammed Bagher Qalibaf says the Strait of Hormuz will remain closed as long as the U.S. imposes a naval blockade on Iran.

“It is impossible for others to pass through the Strait of Hormuz while we cannot,” he said in televised comments aired by Iranian semiofficial media late Saturday.

Qalibaf, who is Iran’s chief negotiator with the United States, said that the strait is now under Iran’s control, linking the choke point’s reopening to the U.S. lifting of its blockade.

“If the U.S. does not lift the blockade, traffic in the Strait of Hormuz will definitely be restricted,” he said.

He said that the ceasefire was on verge of collapse when the U.S. attempted to mine-clear the strait.

He said Iran viewed the U.S. attempt as a violation of the ceasefire.

“The situation escalated to the point of conflict but the enemy retreated,” he said.

Israel’s military says another soldier died in combat in southern Lebanon, the second death announced in under 12 hours.

It brought the total number of soldiers killed in Lebanon to 15, and was the second soldier killed in combat since the ceasefire.

The military said that another soldier was badly wounded, along with four moderately wounded and four slightly injured.

The navy of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said that it extended the closure to the corridor it had earlier designated for the safe passage of vessels through the strategic waterway and declared the strait fully closed until the U.S. blockade on Iranian ports and ships is lifted.

On Friday, Iran said that vessels could move through the strait in coordination with it and against the payment of a toll.

But in a statement late Saturday carried by Iran’s state media, the navy warned that any violating vessel would be targeted.

Iran considers the U.S. blockade a violation of the ceasefire between the two countries. Two vessels were attacked earlier on Saturday in the Strait of Hormuz and off Oman’s coast, at least one of them by Iranian gunboats.

Excavators remove rubble from destroyed buildings that were hit on Thursday by Israeli airstrikes, as they keep searching for victims in Tyre city, southern Lebanon, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

A woman member of the Basij paramilitary, affiliated with Iran's Revolutionary Guard, holds her gun during a state-organized rally in support of the supreme leader marking National Girl's Day in Tehran, Iran, Friday, April 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)

President Donald Trump listens to speeches before signing an executive order in the Oval Office of the White House, Saturday, April 18, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

Barber Mohammad Mehdi cuts the hair of his client Ayman Al Zein inside his shop, which was damaged in an Israeli airstrike that also damaged Al Zein's shop, in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburbs, Lebanon, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)

The sun rises behind a tanker anchored in the Strait of Hormuz off the coast of Qeshm Island, Iran, Saturday, April 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Asghar Besharati)