What AMP does

AMP Robotics Corporation (operating as AMP) is a Louisville, Colorado-based AI and robotics company that designs, builds, and operates AI-powered sortation systems for the recycling and waste management industry. Founded in 2014 by Matanya Horowitz, AMP has deployed more than 400 AI systems across over 100 clients in 10 countries on three continents, addressing chronic labor shortages, rising contamination, and the economic unsustainability of manual Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) operations.

The company's product portfolio is centered on the AMP Neuron AI computer vision and deep learning platform, which classifies materials by type, form factor, color, polymer, and brand using RGB cameras mounted on conveyors at speeds up to 600 feet/minute and trained on over 50 billion images. This AI core powers a stack of sortation hardware — AMP Vision (characterization), AMP Jet and Microjet (high-speed optical air-jet ejection at over 5,000 ejections per minute), AMP Delta/Cortex (robotic arm picking at up to 120 picks per minute), and AMP Vac/Vortex (belt-mounted vacuum thin-film removal) — that is integrated into AMP ONE, a fully automated, zero-manual-sortation-labor facility-scale solution deployable at 10K-1M+ tons per year scale in under 12 months. Analytics modules (AMP Insight, AMP Clarity, AMP Smart Tons) provide real-time bale composition, purity, and operational performance data.

AMP earns revenue through a mix of direct equipment sales (AMP Delta, Vision, Jet, Microjet, Vac, ONE), a zero-down/zero-interest equipment lease program introduced in 2020, and a flagship Sortation-as-a-Service model in which AMP designs, builds, operates, and maintains facilities under multi-year O&M contracts at a fixed per-ton price. Customers include large enterprise waste operators (Waste Connections with 50+ deployed MRFs, Evergreen with 15 systems across three locations, FCC Medio Ambiente in Madrid), municipal and regional waste authorities (SPSA in Virginia under a 20-year partnership, Emmet County in Michigan), specialty recyclers (RDS of Virginia, Single Stream Recyclers), e-waste processors (Electronic Recyclers International), packaging producers (Sonoco), and carbon credit buyers (Google). The company has raised more than $253 million across rounds led by Sequoia, XN, Congruent Ventures, and the Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, and is led by CEO Tim Stuart (former Republic Services COO) with founder Matanya Horowitz serving as CTO.

Name

AMP

Legal name

AMP Robotics Corporation

Website

https://ampsortation.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2014

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

AMP Robotics Corporation (AMP) is a Louisville, Colorado-based AI and robotics company that designs, builds, and operates AI-powered sortation systems and fully automated zero-labor materials recovery facilities for waste management companies, municipalities, recyclers, packaging producers, and carbon credit buyers.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Recycling and Waste Sortation Robotics

NAICS

Waste Collection (5621)

SIC

Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Plastic Recycling Equipment & Technology Providers (Sorting, Washing, Extrusion) (EUAIAKAM)

Keywords

• AI-powered waste sorting
• Robotic sortation systems
• Recycling automation
• Computer vision recycling
• Materials recovery facilities

Headquarters

HQ city

Louisville

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices5 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Sortation-as-a-Service (O&M contract): Contract-operated, pay-per-ton performance model where AMP designs, builds, operates, and maintains the facility for the customer. Revenue is a fixed per-ton price covering people, training, maintenance, parts, monitoring, reporting, optimization, and the technology stack. Structured as multi-year O&M agreements (e.g., 20-year SPSA partnership).
2. Equipment sales (AMP Delta, Vision, Jet, Microjet, Vac, AMP ONE): Sale or deployment of AI-guided robotic systems, vision systems, optical sorters, air-jet sorters, vacuum sorters, and integrated facility infrastructure to waste management companies and municipalities. Series D capital of $91 million was raised specifically to accelerate deployment of AMP ONE systems.
3. Equipment leasing: Zero-down, zero-interest lease program introduced in May 2020 to lower the barrier to entry for MRF operators to deploy AMP's AI-guided recycling robotics.
4. Extended Support / aftermarket services: Customer service platform and Extended Support plan providing replacement parts, on-site service visits, and ongoing maintenance; customers typically spend tens of thousands of dollars less per year in avoided labor and consumables.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

AMP designs, builds, and operates AI-powered waste sortation systems and facilities for the recycling and solid waste industry. Its offerings combine proprietary computer vision (AMP Vision, AMP Neuron AI), robotic arm sortation (AMP Delta), optical and air-jet sortation (AMP Jet, AMP Microjet, AMP Vac), and analytics (AMP Insight/Clarity) into facility-scale AMP ONE solutions and a contract-operated Sortation-as-a-Service model for waste companies, municipalities, and recyclers.

Product overview

AMP Robotics Corporation delivers an integrated AI-powered waste sortation platform centered on its flagship facility product AMP ONE, the first zero manual-sortation labor Materials Recovery Facility (MRF), which combines the company's core sortation technologies — AMP Vision (AI computer vision), AMP Jet (AI-powered optical air-jet sortation), AMP Microjet (in-stream QC air jets), AMP Delta (high-speed robotic arm sortation) and AMP Vac (belt-mounted vacuum thin-film removal) — under the unifying AMP Smart Sortation platform. Legacy and adjacent modules include AMP Cortex (the predecessor high-speed robotics system), AMP Neuron/AMP AI (the proprietary neural-network classification platform), AMP Insight (real-time operational analytics), AMP Clarity (web-based material characterization data portal), and AMP Smart Tons (per-bale composition tracking). The portfolio is delivered either as deployed technology within an MRF or via AMP's Sortation-as-a-Service contract-operated O&M business model, with targeted application solutions for single-stream recycling, municipal solid waste (MSW), fiber, plastic, metal, film, and e-waste streams. The technology has been deployed across hundreds of systems in 10 countries on three continents, including flagship AMP ONE facilities in Cleveland, Atlanta, Portsmouth (SPSA partnership) and Commerce City.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AMP ONE: Fully automated facility-scale smart sortation solution for processing single-stream recycling and municipal solid waste.
• AMP Cortex
• AMP Delta
• AMP Vision
• AMP Jet
• AMP Microjet
• AMP Vac
• AMP Neuron
• AMP Insight
• AMP Clarity
• AMP Smart Sortation
• AMP Smart Tons
• AMP Vortex

Products and services

• AMP ONE Fully automated, zero manual-sortation-labor Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) solution that deploys AMP Smart Sortation at 10K–1M+ tons per year, combining AMP Vision, AMP Jet, AMP Microjet, AMP Delta, AMP Vac, AMP Insight, and AMP Smart Tons into a single operating system for waste companies and municipalities.
• AMP Vision Modular computer vision system using RGB cameras to provide real-time, continuous material characterization on conveyor belts at speeds up to 600 feet/minute with 80% belt coverage; identifies items across 50+ material categories by type, form factor, color, polymer, and brand. Powers AMP AI recognition and AMP Insight analytics. For MRF operators, recyclers, and packaging producers.
• AMP Jet AI-powered optical air-jet sorter with two rows of 50 air nozzles and over 5,000 ejections per minute, with flight path optimization and double-cut sortation; high-efficiency sortation engine at the heart of AMP ONE facilities that captures 90%+ of target material and reconfigures in real time to target different materials.
• AMP Microjet Compact air-jet sortation solution for in-stream quality control; mounts quickly on the side of conveyor belts to capture valuable commodities on lower-volume lines. Uses AMP Vision and AMP AI for identification by material type, form factor, color, and polymer.
• AMP Delta High-speed, AI-powered robotic arm sortation system that processes material up to four times faster than manual sorting with greater accuracy and consistency; available in Delta, Delta Tandem, and Delta Compact models; can pick at up to 120 picks per minute and operates 24/7 for MRF operators.
• AMP Vac Belt-mounted vacuum thin-film sortation technology that removes 2D and flexible film from fiber and MSW streams to improve bale purity and supply pyrolysis-spec material; operates at up to 120 picks/minute and 0.2 tons/hr on existing 48"–72" belts, replacing up to five human sorters.
• Sortation-as-a-Service Contract-operated, pay-per-ton O&M service in which AMP designs, builds, operates and maintains customer sortation facilities; delivers guaranteed outcomes across throughput, recovery, and diversion KPIs at a fixed per-ton price covering people, training, maintenance, parts, monitoring, reporting, optimization, and AMP technology stack. Structured as multi-year O&M contracts (e.g., 20-year SPSA partnership).
• MSW Sortation Solution AMP's municipal solid waste (MSW) processing solution that accepts raw MSW including sealed trash bags, uses AMP Smart Sortation to separate material into recyclable commodity streams, and converts organic material into biochar via pyrolysis. Featured in the SPSA Portsmouth 20-year partnership.
• Single Stream Sortation Solution AMP's single-stream recycling processing solution for mixed recyclable material streams from residential and commercial recycling programs; deployed at facilities such as Single Stream Recyclers in Sarasota, FL.
• AMP Smart Tons Material characterization service providing transparency into the composition of every bale (fiber, plastic, metal, film) sorted in an AMP ONE facility, enabling sellers to know exactly what they are supplying to downstream markets.

Quantifiable outcome

• 60% labor efficiency boost at Emmet County
• +9 more outcomes

Named customers11 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles5 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability10 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

15 partnerships are on record, tiered core, flagship and minor.

• Robots for America (RFA) coalitioncoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 8 May 2026AMP-related robotics companies (alongside Formic, Machina Labs, Standard Bots, Dexterity, Path Robotics, GrayMatter Robotics, and others) formed the Robots for America national coalition at the SCSP AI+ Expo in Washington, D.C., to advance U.S. robotics deployment policy at the request of OSTP, Commerce, SBA, and the U.S. Senate.
• GooglecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 March 2026Google signed a carbon removal credit agreement with AMP affiliate Commonwealth Sortation LLC to purchase credits generated by AMP's AI-powered organic waste processing into biochar. The deal targets the removal of 200,000 metric tonnes of CO2 equivalent by 2030 and supports AMP's third biochar production facility.
• Southeastern Public Service Authority (SPSA)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2025AMP, through affiliate Commonwealth Sortation LLC, signed a 20-year O&M agreement with SPSA to process raw MSW in southeastern Virginia. The Portsmouth facility has been expanded to 108,000 tons/year capacity, with the broader system designed to scale to 540,000 tons annually and divert at least 50% of delivered material from the Regional Landfill.
• RDS of VirginiacoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 23 September 2025RDS of Virginia deployed AMP Cortex robotics in Roanoke in 2019, achieving 10% recovery increase and 98% identification accuracy. In September 2025 AMP acquired RDS's Portsmouth operations, integrating its 108,000-ton MSW sortation facility into AMP's network under affiliate Commonwealth Sortation LLC.
• The Recycling Partnership (Polypropylene Recycling Coalition)coreGTM or Marketing Partner · 10 October 2022Provided grant funding through The Recycling Partnership's Polypropylene Recycling Coalition to multiple MRFs that purchased AMP Delta robots, including Caglia Environmental (CARTS) and Napa Recycling, enabling those MRFs to add PP recovery alongside PET and HDPE.
• FCC Medio Ambiente / EnvironmentcoreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 1 June 2022FCC installed AMP Cortex intelligent robotics at its La Campiña facility in Madrid (serving 31 municipalities and 700,000 residents) to recover PET, HDPE, and UBCs after manual sorting. The deployment supported quality control and operational efficiency and was the foundation for AMP's continued European expansion.
• Agrex-EcominorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 13 October 2021AMP and Agrex-Eco launched an AI-powered recycling demonstration site in Poland to lower the cost of recycling across the Polish market.
• RecycominorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 22 September 2021AMP installed its first recycling robots in the United Kingdom and Ireland through a partnership with Recyco.
• SonococoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 7 September 2021Sonoco and AMP co-created a new material category within AMP's neural network for rigid paper containers. Sonoco installed an AMP Cortex system in one of its 40+ recycling facilities globally, and the partnership enabled identification of more than 50 billion containers and packaging types in real-world conditions. Recognized with a 2022 SPC Innovator Award.
• European recycling reseller partnercoreChannel Partner/ Reseller/ Distributor · 19 July 2021AMP hired a European general manager and partnered with a leading recycling reseller to drive expansion efforts across Europe; the AMP Neuron AI network is locally based in Europe to support customer adoption.
• Waste ConnectionsflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 16 November 2020Long-term partnership to deploy AMP Delta intelligent robotics systems across Waste Connections' MRF network. 50+ systems have been installed on fiber, container, and residue lines; AMP also operates a single-stream recycling facility for Waste Connections in Colorado. The partnership has reduced labor costs by $2M annually and increased plastic recyclables recovery by 15% across 20 facilities.
• Evergreen (Greenbridge)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 November 2020Evergreen (then owned by Greenbridge) partnered with AMP to scale PET bottle recovery using AMP Delta robots across Clyde OH, Riverside CA, and Albany NY (15 systems across three locations). The collaboration drove 200% increases in PET capture rates and supports Evergreen's food-grade rPET pellet production.
• Electronic Recyclers International (ERI)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting Partner · 20 June 2019ERI, the largest fully integrated IT asset disposition and e-waste recycler in the United States, became the first in its industry to deploy AMP Delta for e-scrap sorting, increasing sorting accuracy and processing volume while freeing employees for higher-value ITAD and data wiping services.
• Carton Council of North AmericacoreGTM or Marketing Partner · 20 June 2019Provided grant funding that enabled deployment of AMP Cortex carton-sorting robots at Single Stream Recyclers (Florida) and other facilities, supporting AMP's expansion into carton recovery use cases.
• Ryohshin Ltd.minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 9 May 2019AMP partnered with Ryohshin Ltd. to develop two robotic systems using the AMP Neuron AI platform to recycle construction and demolition materials for the Japanese market.

Scale indicators13 records

Recent moves11 records

Expansion highlights8 records

Direct peers

• TOMRA: Norwegian sensor-based sorting leader that develops optical sorters and AI-driven reverse vending and recycling systems. Directly competes with AMP in optical sorting and increasingly in AI/robotic recycling, with a much larger global footprint and broad portfolio across waste, food, and mining.
• Zenrobotics: Finnish AI-powered robotic sorting company pioneering waste-sorting robots for C&D, MSW, and commercial waste streams. Closest direct competitor to AMP's robotic sorting technology, particularly for heavy waste streams that AMP's product line also targets.
• Bulk Handling Systems (BHS): U.S.-based integrated recycling equipment manufacturer offering optical sorters (NRT), robotic sorters, and complete MRF systems. Competes head-to-head with AMP on equipment sales for MRF operators, particularly in single-stream and C&D recycling.
• Machinex: Canadian manufacturer of recycling and waste sorting equipment, including optical sorters, eddy current separators, and complete MRF systems. A direct equipment competitor to AMP in single-stream and MRF modernization projects across North America.
• Pellenc ST: French maker of optical sorting and AI-driven sorting equipment for waste and recycling facilities. A direct peer competing on AI vision and optical sorting across MSW and single-stream — particularly in European markets where AMP is also expanding via reseller partnerships.

Emerging players

• Sadako Technologies: Spanish AI-waste-sorting startup using computer vision and robotics to identify and recover materials in MRFs. An emerging competitor with comparable technology focus but smaller scale; serves as a regional alternative to AMP in Southern Europe.
• Greyparrot: UK-based AI waste analytics company providing computer vision and material characterization software for recycling facilities. Adjacent competitor to AMP Vision/AMP Insight with a software-only model, focused on analytics rather than physical sorting actuation.

Broad incumbents

• Waste Management (WM): North America's largest waste services company with extensive recycling infrastructure and active investments in automation. A potential customer, partner, and competitive threat — ex-CEO David Steiner joined AMP's board, but WM could also internalize AI capabilities at scale.
• Republic Services: Major U.S. waste and recycling services company with a large MRF footprint. AMP's new CEO Tim Stuart joined from Republic Services (COO), creating a deep relationship but also a potential vertical-integration risk if Republic chooses to internalize AI sortation.
• Recology: Employee-owned U.S. waste and recycling hauler that operates MRFs and has been an early adopter of AI sorting technologies. Comparable to AMP's enterprise customer base and a likely deployment partner or competitor on the facility-operations side.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/amp-sortation
• Xx.com/AMPSortation

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles14 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds10 records

Investors18 records

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M&A1 record

Investments

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