Why Hardware Startups Use Accelerated Life Testing

Hardware Startups with Fexingo: Devices, Robotics, and Manufacturing Tech Companies · Aug 27, 2026 · 8m · transcript

In this episode of Hardware Startups with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into accelerated life testing—the practice of compressing years of wear and tear into weeks to predict product lifespan. They focus on a real-world example: a startup that makes smart locks, which used accelerated testing to expose a seal failure that would have taken three years to appear in the field. The hosts explain the core methods—temperature, humidity, vibration, and thermal cycling—and how startups decide which stresses to apply. They also discuss the tricky math of acceleration factors, why it's hard to map…