Azure Percept is a platform of hardware and services that simplifies use of Azure AI technologies on the edge. The development kit comes with an intel

Azure Percept Obstacle Avoidance LEGO Car is called Perceptmobile.

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Azure Percept is a platform of hardware and services that simplifies use of Azure AI technologies on the edge. The development kit comes with an intelligent camera, Azure Percept Vision, and it can also be extended with Azure Percept Audio, a linear microphone array. Azure Percept works out of the box with Azure services such as Cognitive Services, Machine Learning, Live Video Analytics, and others to deliver vision and audio insights in real time. Scenarios like object detection, spatial analytics, anomaly detection, keyword spotting, and others can easily be solved with use of pre-built Azure AI models for edge.

I build "Perceptmobile", an Azure Percept-powered obstacle avoidance LEGO Boost car, as a weekend project and in this post I will walk you through all steps how it was built.

In the standard LEGO Boost package you can find instructions on how to build 4 different models and one of them is M.T.R. 4 model, which I modified a bit to fit the needs of this project. Model was used as a base on top of which I placed Azure Percept with Azure Percept Vision camera. LEGO Boost package also comes with 3 cones that I took pictures of and trained the Custom Vision model. Custom vision models can easily be deployed to the Azure Percept via Azure Percept Studio, and you can easily test it with camera stream.