# AMP

> AMP designs, builds, and operates AI-powered waste sorting systems and recycling facilities for waste companies and municipalities. Its computer vision, robotic arms, and air jets recover saleable materials from recycling streams and mixed trash, with facility services offered on a pay-per-ton basis.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** Louisville, United States
- **Founders:** Matanya Horowitz (Founder and chief technology officer; formerly CEO)
- **Products:** AMP ONE, AMP Vision, AMP Jet, AMP Microjet, AMP Delta
- **Notable:** More than 400 AI systems deployed across three continents, company-reported in September 2026., Three full-scale facilities reported in September 2026., AMP reported three million tons of recyclables processed by its systems in August 2026.

## Products & services

- **AMP ONE** — Facility-scale AI sorting for single-stream recycling, mixed municipal solid waste, and other feedstocks; available through an operated pay-per-ton service.
- **AMP Vision** — RGB camera-based material recognition and continuous characterization of waste streams.
- **AMP Jet** — AI-directed air-jet separation; AMP specifies over 5,000 ejections per minute per Jet.
- **AMP Microjet** — Compact side-mounted pneumatic sorting for quality control on lower-volume conveyor lines.
- **AMP Delta** — Robotic arm sorting for existing recycling facilities, including compact and tandem configurations.
- **AMP Insight** — Operational analytics, material counts, mass estimates, and waste stream characterization.
- **AMP SmartTons** — Bale barcodes linked to material composition and purity data.
- **Facility operations and maintenance** — Design, integration, operation, maintenance, and optimization of sorting facilities.
- **AMP Cortex and AMP Neuron** — Historical names for AMP’s robotic sorting system and AI platform; the current website emphasizes Delta, Vision, Jet, and AMP ONE.

## Achievements

- More than 400 AI systems deployed across three continents, company-reported in September 2026.
- Three full-scale facilities reported in September 2026.
- AMP reported three million tons of recyclables processed by its systems in August 2026.
- AMP ONE included in TIME’s Best Inventions of 2025, according to AMP’s October 2025 announcement.
- Named to the 2026 Global Cleantech 100.

## Latest updates

- **2026-09** — Closed $70 million in Galvanize-led project debt for Portsmouth sorting and organics infrastructure; second sorting facility expected in early 2028.
- **2026-08** — Announced Kent County mixed-waste sorting partnership ahead of waste-to-energy processing.
- **2026-05** — Announced a Denver Post Top Workplace award.
- **2026-04** — Announced expanded Virginia mixed-waste processing capacity under the SPSA partnership.
- **2026-03** — Announced Google carbon removal purchase agreement for 200,000 metric tonnes of CO2e by 2030.

## Links

- Website: https://ampsortation.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/amp-sortation/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ampsortation
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/amprobotics
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ampsortation/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/amprobotics

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Last updated: 2026-10-23