AMP

Summary

About

About AMP

AMP develops facility-scale waste processing around computer vision, material-flow data and high-speed air-jet sorting. Its neural network recognises visible properties such as material, colour, form, wrappers and contamination across more than 50 categories, while near-infrared sensing supports resin and organics separation down to particles measuring 12 millimetres.

Vision monitors composition continuously; Jet and MicroJet eject selected items, and AMP ONE coordinates jam detection, self-clearance, baler scheduling, bale quality and mass-flow reporting across a largely touchless facility. The company finances, designs, builds and can operate municipal-solid-waste and recycling plants under a pay-per-ton service model, taking responsibility for staffing, maintenance and performance. Earlier Cortex robotic cells remain deployed in a fleet of hundreds across North America, Europe and Japan.

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Articles

21 NOV 2025

AMP Robotics is turning waste sorting into municipal infrastructure

Products

Operations

Orders & commitments

  • Order / commitment

    2025-11-21 - AMP secured a 20-year SPSA contract for large-scale mixed-waste processing in South Hampton Roads. - AMP mixed-waste processing - South Hampton Roads mixed-waste processing contract

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Deployments

  • Commercial activity

    2026-04-02 - AMP Robotics expanded Virginia mixed-waste processing capacity under its SPSA partnership. - waste-processing deployment expansion - Virginia mixed-waste processing operations

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Funding

Investors

  • Blue Earth Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-12-05
  • CalSTRS - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-12-05
  • Congruent Ventures - Lead - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-12-05
  • Liberty Mutual Investments - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-12-05
  • Range Ventures - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-12-05
  • Sequoia Capital - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-12-05
  • Tao Capital Partners - Participant - VC - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-12-05
  • Wellington Management - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-12-05
  • XN - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2024-12-05

Team

  • Matanya Horowitz - Founder and CTO
  • Tim Stuart - Chief Executive Officer - Leads AMP after the founder moved into the chief technology officer role.

Timeline

Events

  • 2026-04-02 - Deployment - AMP expands Virginia mixed-waste processing capacity under SPSA partnership

    AMP said its Portsmouth, Virginia facility is now operating at 108,000 tons of annual municipal solid waste processing capacity under its long-term agreement with the Southeastern Public Service Authority. The company said the broader system being deployed under the agreement, including additional mixed-waste sortation lines and an organics management system, is designed to process up to 540,000 tons annually once fully scaled. AMP framed the site around its AI-based sorting stack, which uses cameras, robotics, and pneumatic jets to identify and recover recyclables and organics from bagged trash.

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  • 2026-03-17 - Partnership - Google signs carbon removal agreement tied to AMP's organic waste processing system

    Google signed an agreement with Commonwealth Sortation LLC, an affiliate of AMP Robotics, for removal of 200,000 metric tonnes of CO2e by 2030. The deal is tied to AMP's organic waste processing pathway, which converts recovered organic material into biochar instead of allowing it to emit methane in landfill conditions. The announcement extends AMP's positioning beyond robotic sortation alone into downstream waste-to-carbon infrastructure built on the same mixed-waste processing system.

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  • 2025-11-21 - Contract Award - AMP secures 20-year SPSA contract for large-scale mixed-waste processing in South Hampton Roads

    SPSA signed a 20-year contract with Commonwealth Sortation LLC, an affiliate of AMP Robotics, to provide solid waste processing services for eight member communities in South Hampton Roads. AMP said the project would become the largest recycling initiative of its kind in the United States, combining mixed-waste sortation and organics processing to extend landfill life and raise regional diversion rates. The contract followed a nearly two-year pilot in Portsmouth built around an AMP ONE system and established the long-term infrastructure base that later supported the 2026 capacity expansion.

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  • 2025-09-23 - Acquisition - AMP acquires RDS of Virginia's Portsmouth operations

    AMP acquired the Portsmouth operations of RDS of Virginia, expanding its service footprint in South Hampton Roads. The transaction was framed as a way to strengthen AMP's operating capabilities around the Portsmouth mixed-waste processing site and deepen its infrastructure position in the region. The deal built directly on AMP's existing investment in the area rather than representing a standalone robotics product launch.

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  • 2024-12-05 - Funding - AMP raises $91 million Series D to scale AI-powered sortation infrastructure

    AMP raised $91 million in Series D financing to support scaling of its AI-powered sortation systems and broader waste infrastructure platform. The round was led by Congruent Ventures and included both returning and new investors across climate, institutional, and growth-capital profiles. AMP positioned the financing around expansion of facility-scale smart sortation and modernization of waste and recycling infrastructure rather than a single robot product release.

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  • 2022-11-02 - Funding - AMP Robotics raises USD 91M Series C

    The financing supported modernization and scaling of waste infrastructure. AMP planned to expand manufacturing capacity for AI-enabled recycling robots and automation applications. The capital supports inspection, monitoring or infrastructure automation workflows as AMP Robotics moves toward broader commercial use.

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Notes

Profile notes

  • AMP expanded from selling sorting robots to operating recycling facilities

    reviewed 2026-07-18 - AMP built its early business by supplying AI-guided robotic sorting systems to material-recovery facilities. It later began taking responsibility for operating facilities that use a more complete version of its sortation platform, including a Waste Connections site announced in 2024.

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Relations

Relationships

  • Southeastern Public Service Authority

    Public Authority Deployment Partner (virginia Mixed Waste System) - AMP and SPSA agreed on a Virginia mixed-waste facility scaling from 108,000 to 540,000 tons of annual capacity.

  • RDS of Virginia

    Acquired Operations (portsmouth) - AMP acquired the Portsmouth operations of RDS of Virginia to deepen mixed-waste processing footprint in South Hampton Roads (AMP announcement).

  • Google

    Carbon Removal / Biochar Offtake Partner - Google agreed to buy up to 200,000 tonnes CO2e of biochar carbon removal from AMP affiliate Commonwealth Sortation.

Context

Comparable profiles

  • ZenRobotics

    stack adjacency - Recycling Robot Oem

  • Tuurny

    stack adjacency - Recycling Robot Oem

Shared workflows

Context tags

  • Recycling robot OEM - Stack Layer - AMP builds complete recycling sortation robot systems.
  • Recycling sortation robotics - Peer Group - AMP builds AI-powered robotic sortation for recycling and waste recovery.
  • Waste recovery AI robotics - Peer Group - AMP uses AI vision to identify and sort recyclable materials.
  • Recycling material sortation - Workflow - AMP robots sort recyclable materials in recycling facilities.
  • AI waste recognition - Workflow - AMP uses AI for waste recognition and classification.
  • Material recognition AI - Capability - AMP provides material recognition AI for recycling.
  • Recycling facilities - Customer Environment - AMP systems are deployed in recycling facilities.
  • Commercial deployment - Commercial Stage - AMP has commercial recycling sortation deployments.

Commercial

  • AMP secures 20-year SPSA contract for large-scale mixed-waste processing in South Hampton Roads

    2025-11-21 · Order / contract

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