Hemlock

Inscrição YC de Hemlock

Fall 2026Active

San Francisco

Hemlock passou pela Y Combinator no batch Fall 2026 como uma empresa Industrials. Abaixo: o que a empresa faz, quem a fundou e sua inscrição para a YC, reconstruída pergunta por pergunta no formulário real da YC.

Batch YC
Fall 2026
Indústria
IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
Localização
San Francisco
Tamanho da equipe
1
Status
Active
Lançada
2026

Fundadores

  • Julian Olschwang
    Julian OlschwangFounder/CEO

O que Hemlock faz

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.

Inscrição YC de Hemlock, reconstruída

Inscrição Y Combinator

Hemlock, lote Fall 2026. As verdadeiras perguntas do formulário, respondidas com dados públicos.

  1. Founders2
  2. Company7
  3. Progress7
  4. Idea4
  5. Equity3
  6. Curious2
  7. Batch Preference1

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.

21 respostas a mais na inscrição completa

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Perguntas Frequentes

Esta é a inscrição real da YC de Hemlock?

Não. A Y Combinator mantém as inscrições submetidas em privado. Esta é uma reconstrução: as perguntas reais do formulário da YC, respondidas a partir dos dados públicos de Hemlock (notas de lançamento, históricos de fundadores, descrição do produto). Mostra como uma empresa como Hemlock se apresentaria à YC, não o texto que eles submeteram.

Em qual batch da YC Hemlock esteve?

Hemlock fez parte do batch Fall 2026 da Y Combinator.

Quem fundou o Hemlock?

O Hemlock foi fundado por Julian Olschwang.

O que o Hemlock faz?

Force-sensing wristband for training robotic AI

Como eu leio o application completo reconstruído?

Crie uma conta gratuita no Round Funded. A versão completa de 26 respostas do application do Hemlock, e de todos os outros lotes do YC, está no YC Insights.

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