AMP Robotics is turning waste sorting into municipal infrastructure

AMP signed a 20-year contract with the Southeastern Public Service Authority of Virginia on November 21, 2025, through Commonwealth Sortation, an AMP affiliate. SPSA serves eight South Hampton Roads communities and 1.2 million residents. AMP will add municipal-solid-waste sortation lines and an organics management system capable of processing 540,000 tons annually, with a target of diverting half of SPSA waste sent to AMP facilities.

The contract followed a nearly two-year Portsmouth pilot using AMP ONE to process up to 150 tons per day of locally sourced municipal solid waste. AMP acquired RDS Portsmouth in September 2025 after operating the system there since late 2023. The acquisition brought a recycling operation that had served South Hampton Roads since 2005 into AMP control.

Capital And Team

AMP raised $91 million in Series D funding in December 2024. Congruent Ventures led the round, with Sequoia Capital, XN, Blue Earth Capital, Liberty Mutual Investments, CalSTRS, Wellington Management, Range Ventures and Tao Capital Partners participating. The same financing disclosure put AMP at 150 billion items identified by its AI platform and more than 2.5 million tons of recyclables sorted.

Matanya Horowitz founded AMP in 2014 and became CTO in November 2024. Tim Stuart became CEO after serving as chief operating officer at Republic Services, where he oversaw field operations, integrations, digital operations strategy and technology scaling. Stuart also spent about 11 years at Waste Management before his nearly 18 years at Republic.

System Evidence

AMP ONE combines cameras, robotics and pneumatic jets to recover recyclables and organics from bagged trash. The Portsmouth system was reported at more than 90 percent uptime while processing municipal solid waste. AMP also installed an AMP ONE system for single-stream and commercial recycling in Greenville, North Carolina, and reported three full-scale facilities plus more than 400 AI systems across North America, Asia and Europe in late 2024.

The business shifted from robot retrofits into owned and operated sortation infrastructure. Early AMP products placed automated sorting systems inside existing material recovery facilities. AMP ONE packages AI classification, robotics, pneumatic sortation and facility design into a larger system for municipal solid waste and single-stream recycling.

Portsmouth gives AMP a specific operating site to evaluate. The RDS asset already handled regional recycling, the AMP ONE pilot ran inside the same market, and the SPSA contract creates a 20-year demand anchor across eight member communities. The public record contains site, customer, throughput target, contract duration and pilot uptime.

The customer economics are tied to landfill life and disposal cost. SPSA said the program is expected to turn 1.2 million residents into active recyclers and double the life of the regional landfill. AMP has not yet published audited annual diversion results for the expanded program, but the contract defines a measurable operating target for the next phase.

The SPSA contract converts facility-scale sorting into a municipal-service agreement. Public evidence still needs operating results across the full 540,000-ton annual plan: actual annual throughput, contamination rates, recovered commodity value, organics handling performance, uptime, cost per ton, staffing levels and landfill-diversion results by year.

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