# Intel Realsense?

**URL:** <https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/intel-realsense/378>\
**Category:** TurtleBot\
**Created:** [August 1, 2016, 4:42am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/intel-realsense/378 "2016-08-01T04:42:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![dougbot01](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/dougbot01/32/255_2.png) [@dougbot01](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/dougbot01)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 4:42am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/intel-realsense/378/1 "2016-08-01T04:42:40Z")

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Hi All,

Related a bit to the Astra thread… has anyone tried the Intel Realsense?  
It appears there is no OpenNI for Realsense, but is that important?  
Any disadvantages you foresee?

Thank you,  
dougbot01

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**Author:** ![dougbot01](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/dougbot01/32/255_2.png) [@dougbot01](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/dougbot01)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2016, 5:56am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/intel-realsense/378/2 "2016-08-01T05:56:43Z")

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I did see this from Clearpath.

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/uploads/ros/original/3X/c/4/c48589d13ddc35e8fbf88524b8ef1f140dcae692.jpeg "Mapping & Navigating Using a RealSense R200 Camera & TurtleBot") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQT9kakt60g)

It sounds like Astra may be the new default, but see complaints of it being “noisy”… is it better than Realsense?

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**Author:** ![ghindman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/278dde/32.png) [@ghindman](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/ghindman)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2016, 11:39am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/intel-realsense/378/3 "2016-08-02T11:39:39Z")

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Hi All,

We do have a couple of pending PR’s to add the Realsense R200 as an available camera in the default turtlebot stack: [Add support for Intel R200 camera by mattcurfman · Pull Request #222 · turtlebot/turtlebot · GitHub](https://github.com/turtlebot/turtlebot/pull/222) and [Parameterize AMCL and GMapping launch files for individual cameras. by kevincwells · Pull Request #152 · turtlebot/turtlebot\_apps · GitHub](https://github.com/turtlebot/turtlebot_apps/pull/152) we hope to get landed soon.

Until then there’s a minorly forked version and documentation for using Realsense w/ Turtlebot at [GitHub - IntelRealSense/realsense-ros: ROS Wrapper for Intel(R) RealSense(TM) Cameras](https://github.com/intel-ros/realsense/)

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**Author:** ![tfoote](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex022/user_avatar/discourse.openrobotics.org/tfoote/32/3813_2.png) [@tfoote](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/u/tfoote)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2016, 7:01am UTC](https://discourse.openrobotics.org/t/intel-realsense/378/4 "2016-10-05T07:01:27Z")

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There are new versions in Indigo and Kinetic of the realsense drivers:

> **[ROS packages for Indigo - 2019-07-10 09:00:23 -0800](http://repositories.ros.org/status_page/ros_indigo_default.html?q=realsense)**

> **[ROS packages for Kinetic - 2021-06-01 22:32:58 -0800](http://repositories.ros.org/status_page/ros_kinetic_default.html?q=realsense)**

And the TurtleBot PRs have been merged too.