Hemlock

Hemlock YC 申请

Fall 2026Active

San Francisco

Hemlock 在 Fall 2026 批次的 Y Combinator 中作为一家 Industrials 公司进行过。以下是:公司做什么、谁创立了它,以及其 YC 申请,按照真实 YC 表格逐题重建。

YC 批次
Fall 2026
行业
IndustrialsManufacturing and Robotics
地点
San Francisco
团队规模
1
状态
Active
已发布
2026

创始人

  • Julian Olschwang
    Julian OlschwangFounder/CEO

Hemlock 做什么

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 的 YC 申请,重建版

Y Combinator 申请

Hemlock,Fall 2026 期。来自公开数据的真实申请问题解答。

  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 更多回答 在完整申请中

Founders, Progress, Idea, Equity, Curious, Batch Preference 包含在完整版中。创建免费账户即可在 YC Insights 中打开,紧邻每个其他 YC 批次。

常见问题解答

这是 Hemlock 的真实 YC 申请吗?

不是。Y Combinator 对提交的申请保密。这是重建版:使用 Hemlock 的公开数据(发布笔记、创始人背景、产品描述)回答真实的 YC 表格问题。它展示了像 Hemlock 这样的公司会如何向 YC 自我介绍,而不是他们提交的文本。

Hemlock 是哪个 YC 批次的?

Hemlock 是 Y Combinator Fall 2026 批次的成员。

谁创立了 Hemlock?

Hemlock 由 Julian Olschwang 创立。

Hemlock 做什么?

Force-sensing wristband for training robotic AI

如何阅读完整的重建申请?

创建免费的 Round Funded 账户。YC Insights 中包含 Hemlock 的完整 26 个问题的版本,以及其他所有 YC 批次的公司信息。

更多 YC 初创公司,例如 Hemlock