Hemlock YCアプリケーション

Fall 2026Active

San Francisco

HemlockはFall 2026バッチでIndustrials企業としてY Combinatorを卒業しました。以下：会社の事業内容、創業者、そして実際のYCフォームで質問ごとに再構築されたYCへの応募内容。

YCバッチ: Fall 2026
業界: IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
所在地: San Francisco
チーム規模: 1
ステータス: Active
ローンチ済み: 2026

創業者

Julian OlschwangFounder/CEO

Hemlockの事業内容

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.

HemlockのYCアプリケーション、再構築済み

Y Combinator 申請

Hemlock 様、Fall 2026 バッチ。公開データから回答された、実際のフォームの質問。

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Company

Company name

Hemlock

Describe what your company does in 50 characters or less.

Force-sensing wristband for training robotic AI

What is your company going to make? Please describe your product and what it does or will do.

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.

Where do you live now, and where would the company be based after YC?

San Francisco, CA, USA. The company will stay based here after YC.

Explain your decision regarding location.

San Francisco is where robotics research and early adopter labs are concentrated. It's also a strong base for hiring and prototyping hardware.

フルアプリケーションで21件の追加回答

はフルバージョンにあります。無料アカウントを作成して、他のすべてのYCバッチの横にあるYCインサイトで開いてください。

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よくある質問

Hemlockの実際のYCアプリケーションですか？

いいえ。Y Combinatorは提出されたアプリケーションを非公開にしています。これは再構築されたものです。実際のYCフォームの質問に、Hemlockの公開データ（ローンチノート、創業者経歴、製品説明）から回答しています。Hemlockのような会社がYCにどのようにアピールするかを示しており、彼らが提出したテキストではありません。