Application YC di Hemlock
San Francisco
Hemlock ha partecipato a Y Combinator nel batch Fall 2026 come azienda Industrials. Sotto: cosa fa l'azienda, chi l'ha fondata e la sua application a YC, ricostruita domanda per domanda nel form reale di YC.
- Batch YC
- Fall 2026
- Settore
- IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
- Luogo
- San Francisco
- Dimensione team
- 1
- Stato
- Active
- Lanciata
- 2026
Founder
Julian OlschwangFounder/CEO
Cosa fa Hemlock
Every serious robotics lab is bottlenecked on the same thing: demonstration data. The field has converged on egocentric video and hand pose as the substrate, and both are now cheap to collect at scale. What neither of them contains is force. A video of someone picking up an egg and a video of someone picking up a rock are nearly identical in pixel space and nearly identical in joint angles. They differ almost entirely in a quantity nobody is recording. Policies trained without it learn geometry and inherit no sense of touch. Hemlock closes that gap at the source. Our device, the Bracelet, is a wrist-worn surface EMG band that reads the electrical activity of the forearm muscles that actually drive the hand, which means it recovers contraction force directly rather than inferring it from motion. This distinction is the whole thesis: force cannot be reconstructed downstream of kinematics, because a hand squeezing hard isometrically and a hand resting can occupy the identical pose. Muscle signal is the only non-invasive channel that separates them.
Application YC di Hemlock, ricostruita
Domanda per Y Combinator
Hemlock, batch Fall 2026. Le vere domande del form, risposte da dati pubblici.
- Founders2
- Company7
- Progress7
- Idea4
- Equity3
- Curious2
- Batch Preference1
Company
Hemlock
Force-sensing wristband for training robotic AI
We make the Bracelet, a wrist-worn EMG device for robotics research. It measures electrical activity in the forearm muscles to recover real hand force during demonstrations, something pose and video can't do. This data is the missing piece for labs training manipulation policies in robots. We close the gap between what robots can see and what human operators actually feel.
San Francisco, CA, USA. The company will stay based here after YC.
San Francisco is where robotics research and early adopter labs are concentrated. It's also a strong base for hiring and prototyping hardware.
21 risposte in più nell'application completa
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Domande Frequenti
Questa è l'application YC reale di Hemlock?
No. Y Combinator mantiene private le application inviate. Questa è una ricostruzione: le domande del form YC reale, a cui si è risposto usando i dati pubblici di Hemlock (note di lancio, background dei founder, descrizione del prodotto). Mostra come un'azienda come Hemlock si presenterebbe a YC, non il testo che hanno inviato.
A quale batch YC apparteneva Hemlock?
Hemlock apparteneva al batch Fall 2026 di Y Combinator.
Chi ha fondato Hemlock?
Hemlock è stato fondato da Julian Olschwang.
Cosa fa Hemlock?
Force-sensing wristband for training robotic AI
Come leggo la ricostruzione completa della application?
Crea un account Round Funded gratuito. La versione completa di 26 risposte della application di Hemlock, e di ogni altro batch YC, è in YC Insights.
