AI Assistant | STM32N6 AI Development Kit with Global Shutter Camera

Al Assistant is an Edge AI development kit powered by the STMicroelectronics STM32N657 MCU. This board integrates a powerful NPU, a global shutter camera, and rich peripherals to accelerate the development of advanced voice and vision AI applications, from smart home devices to industrial monitoring. This product is a co-create collaboration with Seeed Studio.

Introducing the AI Assistant development kit, jointly created by Seeed Studio and STMicroelectronics. This is an all-in-one development platform designed for cutting-edge edge AI applications. Centered around the high-performance STM32N657 MCU with its integrated ST Neural-ART AI accelerator, it perfectly blends powerful AI computing capabilities with the classic MCU advantages of low power consumption, a small form factor, and cost-effectiveness. The kit comes equipped with an onboard global shutter camera, an IMU sensor with an AI processing unit, a high-definition touchscreen, and a Wi-Fi module, offering a complete hardware and software solution for developing next-generation smart vision and voice interaction products.

• Flagship AI Microcontroller

Powered by the ST STM32N657, featuring a high-performance Arm® Cortex®-M55 core and an integrated ST Neural-ART NPU that delivers up to 600 GOPS for efficient AI model acceleration.

• Professional-grade Vision Sensor

Equipped with an ST VD55G1 global shutter camera, providing crisp, distortion-free images of fast-moving objects, which is critical for high-accuracy computer vision tasks.

• Intelligent Sensing with ISPU

Features an LSM6DSO16IS IMU with a built-in Intelligent Sensor Processing Unit (ISPU), enabling ultra-low power gesture and activity recognition without waking the main processor.

• Rich Interactive Peripherals

Integrates a 4.0-inch 480x480 capacitive touch display, a high-fidelity digital microphone, and an audio codec, providing a complete hardware foundation for developing interactive AI applications out of the box.

• Comprehensive Connectivity

Includes an onboard Wi-Fi module for seamless IoT connectivity, alongside a USB-C port and multiple expansion headers for maximum development flexibility.

• Ready-to-Run Linux Environment

Comes with a pre-built OpenSTLinux BSP, providing a stable and flexible open-source software foundation to jumpstart your development.

• AI-Powered User Interfaces: Develop touchless smart appliances, gesture control systems (based on palm detection and landmark recognition), and smart voice assistants connected to large language models.
• Smart Security & Building Automation: Implement features such as smart doorbells, indoor people detection and occupancy statistics, behavior analysis, and fall detection.
• Industrial & Robotic Vision: For use in scenarios like anomaly detection on production lines, robot pose estimation, and autonomous navigation.
• Health & Fitness Monitoring: Leverage the low-power advantage of the ISPU to develop wearable devices for gait analysis, fitness activity recognition, and long-term motion tracking.
• Educational & AI Research: An ideal, accessible platform for students and researchers to learn and experiment with real-world edge AI concepts and deployment workflows.