Detroit Laboratory

DETROIT CAPABILITIES

• Human Health & Wellness Laboratory

  With extensive expertise in biomechanics, human behavior, epidemiology, physiology, and data science, our lab specializes in "hard-to-get" data to support a broad range of customized user performance, health, and wellness studies.

  Our Detroit-area lab team leverages cutting-edge biometric and motion capture capabilities, a modern exercise suite, and a one-way window observation room to help manufacturers, pharmaceutical companies, and contract research organizations (CROs) evaluate biometric fitness and wearable devices, sensors, and medical products to deliver impactful results for patients and consumer users. Our capabilities include:

  • Data collection and optimization

  • Prototype evaluations

  • Risk assessments

  • Behavioral, psychological, and physiological evaluations

  • Decentralized clinical trial design, execution, monitoring, and data analysis

  • Regulatory compliance testing

• Vehicle Testing Laboratory

  Our vehicle laboratory specializes in comprehensive vehicle benchmarking, including visual and audio documentation of vehicle responses to driver behavior, detailed geometric and material strength documentation of structural components critical to collision scenarios, and other specialized testing. Our team also supports high-stakes automotive and automated vehicle (AV) litigation and expert witness testimony with innovative, impactful visual exhibits and demonstratives.

• User Testing Laboratory

  Our purpose-built user testing laboratory supports clients in understanding how people interact with products, environments, and complex systems across consumer, digital health, medical device, and automotive applications.

  Leveraging multidisciplinary expertise and deep familiarity with industry standards, our teams design and implement customized testing protocols to generate deep product insights to inform design decisions, improve product safety and efficacy, optimize work environments, and support incident investigations. Our capabilities include:

  • Large-scale participant studies

  • Modular space

  • Customized data acquisition

  • Observation room with one-way window

  • Dedicated participant entry and intake area

  • Video and motion capture technologies

  • Exercise equipment suite and movable, furnished living room with standalone staircase

  • Scalable research and analysis

  • Standardized lab testing in accordance with ISO 13485 and ISO 14155

• Biomechanical Testing Laboratory

  Our biomechanical testing laboratory helps clients test and validate performance and safety for a wide range of products, including fitness wearables, clinical devices, household products, athletic equipment, apparel, footwear, wearable sensors, AR/VR devices, and vehicle and military applications. Our capabilities include:

  • Biomechanical performance and kinematics analysis

  • Custom test development, validation, and regulatory compliance testing

  • Human injury potential evaluations and risk assessments

  • Human body modeling (physical modeling, simulation, cadaver testing) and user-specific characterization (anthropometry, tissue properties)

  • Long-term wear, product fit, movement dynamics, and loading force testing

  • Finite element analysis (FEA) and failure modes and effects analysis

  • Failure and root cause investigations