# Third-Party Cameras & Sensors

The LeRobot ecosystem extends far beyond its natively supported cameras (OpenCV, Intel RealSense, ZMQ, Reachy 2). Thanks to LeRobot's plugin architecture, the community has built drop-in camera and sensor integrations — from depth cameras to vision-based tactile sensors. This page showcases community-maintained camera and sensor integrations you can use for teleoperation, data collection, and policy deployment.

> [!IMPORTANT]
> These projects are developed and maintained by third parties. Please refer to each repository for installation instructions, hardware requirements, and support.

Drop-in plugins are auto-discovered by package name: LeRobot imports any installed package prefixed with `lerobot_camera_`. Once installed, reference the camera `type` the plugin registers (see its README — it may differ from the package name) directly from any LeRobot command:

```bash
pip install lerobot_camera_<name>

lerobot-record \
    --robot.type=so101_follower \
    --robot.port=/dev/ttyACM0 \
    --robot.cameras="{ front: {type: <name>, width: 640, height: 480, fps: 30} }" \
    --dataset.repo_id=${HF_USER}/my-dataset \
    --dataset.num_episodes=5
```

## Tactile Sensors

  
    
    
  
  
    ProjectDescription
  
  
    
      lerobot-camera-xense
      Plugin for Xense vision-based tactile sensors, exposing rectified/difference images, depth, and 2D markers.
    
  

## Depth Cameras

  
    
    
  
  
    ProjectDescription
  
  
    
      lerobot_camera_berxel
      Plugin for the Berxel depth camera, part of the broader HEXFELLOW driver suite.
    
  

## Networked Cameras

  
    
    
  
  
    ProjectDescription
  
  
    
      lerobot_camera_zmq
      Plugin streaming Stereolabs ZED and USB camera frames from a Raspberry Pi over the network.
    
  

## Virtual Cameras

  
    
    
  
  
    ProjectDescription
  
  
    
      lerobot_camera_dummy
      Plugin simulating a camera for recording without hardware. Useful for debugging !
    
  

## Contributing

Built your own LeRobot camera or sensor integration? Package it as an installable `lerobot_camera_<name>` plugin and it will be auto-discovered by the LeRobot CLI — see the [Bring Your Own Hardware](./integrate_hardware) guide and the [Cameras](./cameras) reference to get started, then share your project with the community!