Hemlock

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About Hemlock

YC company profile

Force + contact dynamics collected at scale for training physical AI.

At Hemlock, we equip workers around the globe with EMG wearables to generate force/contact-annotated egocentric video data to give physical AI models a sense of touch from human data. Force + contact dynamics, collected at scale.

  • YC batch: Fall 2026
  • Founded: 2025
  • Team size: 1
  • Location: San Francisco
  • Country: US
  • Status: Active
  • Industry: Industrials
  • Stage: Early
  • Tags: Hard Tech, Hardware
  • YC partner: Nicolas Dessaigne

Founders

Julian Olschwang — Founder/CEO

Founder at Hemlock. CMU Electrical and Computer Engineering dropout. Previously built GANs for military robotic data generation at the UCLA Biomechatronics Lab.

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Source: Y Combinator · Retrieved 2026-11-02. Company information is self-reported on YC.