Business

Hemlock

Website
Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

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.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08

Founders & team

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.

Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15
1team members reported
Source-reported As recorded 2026-09-15

Founded 2025 · Source

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Y Combinator

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Last website check2026-11-11
Location · source statedSan Francisco, CA, USA
Pricing evidenceNo pricing page confirmed
Maturity: Not assessed · 2 of 6 areas documented

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