AMP Robotics is a Colorado-based company using artificial intelligence and robotics to modernize the economics of recycling. The recycling industry has long struggled with thin margins, labor shortages, and contamination, with much recyclable material ending up landfilled because sorting it is too costly. AMP attacks this with computer vision and robotic automation that can recognize and pick recyclable materials, by type, color, and even brand, far faster and more consistently than human sorters.
At the heart of AMP's offering is a deep-learning vision system trained on an enormous and growing dataset of waste-stream imagery. The company reports its platform has identified more than 150 billion items, giving it one of the largest labeled datasets of recyclable materials in the world. This perception layer drives high-speed robotic sorters that pull target materials off conveyor lines in materials recovery facilities (MRFs), as well as analytics products that give recyclers visibility into what is flowing through their plants.
AMP has pursued two complementary go-to-market paths. It sells and deploys its AI and robotics systems to existing recycling operators, with hundreds of systems installed across North America, Asia, and Europe, and it operates its own next-generation automated sortation facilities, effectively productizing the full MRF around its technology. Across deployments, AMP says it has facilitated the sortation of millions of tonnes of recyclables, improving recovery rates and the quality of recovered commodities.
In December 2024 AMP raised a $91 million Series D led by Congruent Ventures, with participation from Sequoia Capital, XN, Blue Earth Capital, Liberty Mutual Investments, CalSTRS, Wellington Management, Range Ventures, and Tao Capital Partners. The capital funds expansion of its automated facilities and continued advances in its AI. By making recycling more economical and effective, AMP aims to keep more material in circulation and out of landfills, addressing both the waste crisis and the resource demands of a circular economy.