Ordinary Lab
Ordinary Lab builds acoustic AI hardware that listens to the physical world in real time, points to where a sound came from, and understands what it was — entirely on-device.

We give machines a sense of hearing.

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The hearing layer for physical AI.

Physical AI is giving machines eyes and limbs to act in the real world. We build the missing sense — acoustic perception that works outdoors, in noise, at the edge of a network — so a machine can react to a sound the moment it happens, not just to what a camera eventually sees.

Top-down view of the momo8 microphone array, an 8-channel acoustic sensor built for robots and machines.

Toward physical AI's sense of hearing.

We're internalizing every layer of that stack ourselves — analog hardware, arrays, edge AI — to finish the one sense physical AI still doesn't have: hearing.

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Acoustic sensing hardwareThe physical layer of hearing, built in-house rather than bought off the shelf — MEMS microphones, analog gain stages and AD conversion, all our own design.

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Modular microphone arraysThe same in-house hardware scales into a full platform — 2 to 192 channels — so physical AI can hear at whatever scale a body needs.

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Edge AI & signal processingThe layer that turns raw sound into understanding, running fully on-device — completing the stack ourselves instead of depending on the cloud.

Meet us in CES 2027.

SonoCop — our flagship acoustic sensor — makes its debut on the show floor. Several nodes run across the stand, sharing what each one hears in real time.

Eureka Park · Las Vegas · Booth TBD · Jan 2027

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