Intel RealSense

Catch up on CES 2026 robotics highlights; explore more 2026 predictions; and analyze major acquisitions by Mobileye, Oshkosh, and Amazon.

The editorial team reviews 2025’s top robotics stories, including iRobot’s bankruptcy, the humanoid boom, and Waymo’s scaling.

“We want to be more than just the eyes of a robot,” said RealSense CEO Nadav Orbach. “We want to be a robot’s visual cortex — interpreting, localizing, and acting in real-time. That means pushing more intelligence to the edge, directly on the camera.”

At the Engineering Theater, attendees can learn from some of the world’s leading robotics developers and component providers.

Large funding rounds, new product announcements, and highlights from CES were just some of our top robotics developments last month.

Intel is spinning out RealSense as a standalone company in the first half of 2025. This is yet another chapter in a three-and-a-half-year saga.

Intel said the D421 is well-suited for a variety of robots, including autonomous mobile robots, humanoids, robotic arms, and more.

The Intel RealSense D415, D435, D435i, and D44 depth cameras are available from Clearpath’s online store.

An engineer at the Southwest Research Institute never had any luck using Intel RealSense cameras. But that all changed with the D455 stereo depth camera.

In the end-of-life notice, Intel reiterated it will “continue to sell the stereo products to current distribution customers.”

In this week’s episode, Steve and Mike discuss the Intel RealSense news; the reveal of the Tesla humanoid robot, and interview Stratom CEO Mark Gordon.

Intel now says the RealSense business unit is winding down and the LiDAR, Facial Authentication and Tracking product lines will reach end of life this month. However, most of the stereo products will “continue.”

RealSense has been a go-to for industry and academia for low-cost, high-quality depth sensing.

“We are winding down our RealSense business and transitioning our computer vision talent, technology and products to focus on advancing innovative technologies that better support our core businesses and IDM 2.0 strategy.”

Intel said its new Dimensional Weight Software, which uses data from the Intel RealSense L515 lidar camera, can quickly and accurately measure boxes in a wide range of sizes for logistics providers.

E-commerce order fulfillment needs speed and accuracy. RightHand Robotics chose Intel’s RealSense D415 depth cameras to collect robust data for its RightPick2 system for piece picking.