Zivid Company Profile: History, Products and Leadership

Oct 11

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Updated: 7 days ago

Zivid is a Norwegian company that makes 3D color cameras used to guide robots in picking, assembly and inspection. It was founded in Oslo in 2015 as a spin-off from the research institute SINTEF and has 95 employees. This profile sets out its history, products and leadership.

Zivid at a Glance

Fact	Detail
Company	Zivid AS
Founded	2015, as Zivid Labs
Founders	Henrik Schumann-Olsen and Oystein Skotheim
Headquarters	Oslo, Norway
Employees	95 in 2025
Products	3D color cameras and software
Chief Executive Officer	Thomas Embla Bonnerud, since 2018

Company History

The founders were colleagues at SINTEF, where they built a prototype 3D camera called ShapeCrafter 3D, shown at the VISION trade fair in Stuttgart in 2014. They founded Zivid Labs the following year, with research support of NOK 6 million from the Research Council of Norway. The first camera in volume production, the Zivid One, was launched in 2017. In 2018 DHL installed a robot with a Zivid camera in an e-fulfilment center in the Netherlands, and the company shortened its name to Zivid.

Key milestones

2014: Prototype shown at VISION.
2015: Founded.
2017: Zivid One launched.
2018: Zivid One+; name changed to Zivid.
2020: Zivid 2.
2023: Zivid 2+ family.
2024: Zivid 2+ R-series.
2025: Zivid 3 XL250 available.
2026: Gold Innovators Award from Vision Systems Design for the Zivid 3 family.

Products

Product	Description
Zivid 3	Latest camera family
Zivid 2+	Camera family introduced in 2023
Zivid 2	Earlier generation, still listed
Zivid SDK and Zivid Studio	Software development kit and graphical tool

The cameras combine a 3D point cloud with color, which helps robots recognize and grasp shiny, transparent or densely packed objects.

Leadership

Name	Role
Thomas Embla Bonnerud	Chief Executive Officer
Henrik Schumann-Olsen	Co-founder
Oystein Skotheim	Co-founder

Can You Invest in Zivid?

No public listing was found. It is privately held.

Strengths and Challenges

Strengths

A specialist focus on high-quality 3D color capture.
Research roots at SINTEF.
A steady sequence of new camera generations.

Challenges

Larger competitors in 3D vision.
A small company in a market where robot makers increasingly bundle vision.

Current Catalogue Coverage

Catalogue checked on 15 October 2026: 5 associated product records. The links below are representative entries, rather than a claim that every historical model is currently available.