Seeed Studio’s reCamera Pro is an AI camera powered by a Rockchip RV1126B quad-core Cortex-A53 SoC with a 3 TOPS NPU for on-device AI vision, but also large language models (LLMs), vision language models (VLMs), as well as speech-to-text (STT) and text-to-speech (TTS) with built-in audio capabilities.
It offers a powerful update to the earlier reCamera modular AI camera based on an SG2002 RISC-V AI SoC, with up to 4GB RAM, 16GB eMMC flash, an 8MP camera sensor supporting up to 4K @ 30 FPS, an M12 lens mount, a built-in 1W speaker, two microphones, Gigabit Ethernet with PoE, dual-band WiFi 5 connectivity, a USB-C port for power and data, and and expansion through a GPIO and MIPI DSI connectors.
reCamera Pro specifications:
- SoC – Rockchip RV1126B
- CPU – Quad-core Arm Cortex-A53 up to 1.2 GHz with 32KB L1 I-Cache and 32KB L1 D-Cache, unified 512KB L2 Cache
- MCU – RISC-V MCU as co-processor
- GPU – 2D graphics engine
- VPU
- Video decoder – H.265/H.264 up to 3840×2160 @ 45 FPS
- Video encoder – H.265, H.264, JPEG up to 12Mbps @ 30 FPS
- JPEG decoder
- AI accelerator – Rockchip NPU engine up to 3 TOPS (INT8); supports INT4, INT8, INT16, and FP16 models; TensorFlow, ONNX, PyTorch, and Caffe frameworks.
- System Memory – 2GB or 4GB LPDDR4 RAM
- Storage
- 16GB eMMC flash
- MicroSD card slot
- Display I/F – 22-pin MIPI DSI connector
- Built-in camera
- 8MP SC850SL sensor
- Optical Format – 1/1.8-inch, starlight-level
- Pixel Size – 2.0μm
- Resolution – Up to 3840×2160
- Max Frame rate – 30FPS @ 4K resolution
- Output format – RAW, MP4, (M)JPG
- Lens mount – M12 x 0.5mm
- Focal Length – 2.75mm
- Aperture – F2.4
- FOV – 123°±5°
- Focus range — 0.6 m ~ ∞
- Hyperfocal distance — 2.7 m
- Audio
- Built-in 8-ohm speaker with 1W rated power
- 2x microphones
- Networking
- Gigabit Ethernet RJ45 port
- Dual-band 2.4/5GHz WiFi 5.0 and Bluetooth 5.4
- USB – USB 3.0 Type-C port
- Expansion interface – 2x CAN bus, 2x GPIO, 1x UART
- Debugging – 4-pin debug UART connector
- Misc
- User button
Power and status LEDs - 6-axis IMU (3-axis accelerometer + 3-axis gyroscope)
- User button
- Power Supply
- 12V/2A via DC jack
- PoE support
- 5V via USB Type-C
- 7.4V battery support via 2-pin connector
- Dimensions – 89.8 x 67 x 6 7mm
- Weight – 324 grams
Seeed Studio also shared some AI benchmarks for reference:
- Vision CNN – YOLO11 @ 43 FPS (640 × 640)
- LLM – Qwen2 0.5B (W8A8) — 13.63 tokens/s
- VLM – InternVL3-1B — 6.08 tokens/s
- STT – Whisper Base with real-time support (RTF ~0.40–0.50)
- TTS – MMS-TTS with real-time support (RTF ~0.09–0.18)
The reCamera Pro competes against other Rockchip RK1126B AI cameras, such as the Firefly CQ38W-1126B, and one of its main benefits is its compact size. In some ways, it visually reminds me of the CamThink NeoEyes NE301, but that’s a different device based on an STM32N6 microcontroller with much higher efficiency and much lower performance.
Seeed Studio has opened pre-orders for the Camera Pro 2GB for $299.90, with shipping scheduled for July 29, 2026, and should eventually show up on AliExpress alongside the earlier reCamera model. The 4GB variant will become available in the next 3 months.
Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
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