The wear lab
Volunteers from the staff wear prototypes for weeks and report on everything: itching, sleeping, showering, the sleeve that catches.
A lab you'd actually want to tour.
Hardware, firmware and data science under two roofs, four miles apart. We prototype in the open and test with the clinicians and operators who will live with the results.
Two buildings, on purpose
Theodore Wirth is for things that might change tomorrow. Saint Paul is for things that should not change without a reason and a record.
Theodore Wirth Parkway, Minneapolis
Where new work happens: early prototypes, things that do not work yet, and the mess that goes with them.
- Research and early hardware
- Firmware and Lattice OS
- Data science
- Semi-anechoic chamber
- Exploratory environmental chambers
Saint Paul
Opened in 2025 for devices that have stopped changing.
- Pilot production line
- Sustaining engineering
- Validation and verification
- Calibration
- Failure analysis and returns
What is inside
The rooms visitors ask to see first.
The semi-anechoic chamber
Seven meters of foam pyramids and a turntable, where every device proves it will not interfere with the pump in the next bed.
The corridor set
A mock hospital corridor with a service lift, a nurse station and a collection of other companies' equipment, for testing what happens when devices meet.
Environmental chambers
Heat, cold, humidity, altitude and vibration, run around the clock on production samples.
Failure analysis
Where every returned device goes, and where someone's job is to find out why it came back.
The interesting failures are never the loud ones. A device that resets is easy. A device that keeps running and quietly returns slightly wrong numbers is the one that keeps me here late.
Tomas Eklund
Principal Test Engineer
2Labs, four miles apart
30 MHz to 6 GHzChamber test range
22People at Saint Paul at opening
1st FridayPublic tours, every month
Tours
Clinicians, students, customers and the curious are all welcome.
We run a public tour of the Theodore Wirth lab on the first Friday of every month at 2pm. It lasts about ninety minutes and includes the anechoic chamber, the wear lab and the corridor set.
Tours are free and limited to twelve people. To book a place, email tours@nexaformlabs.com with the date you would like and the names of everyone coming. Customer and partner tours of either building can be arranged on other days through your account team.
The labs are step-free throughout. The anechoic chamber floor is a suspended wire grid; visitors who would rather not cross it can watch from the doorway, which is where most of the staff stand anyway.
Want to work here?
Both labs are hiring. Most hardware roles are on site, because the work involves physical objects.