2023年5月11日,

AMP机器人、丹佛科罗拉多州启动创建机器人系统可以自动分类可回收的材料,今天宣布,它延长了C系列圆至9900万美元,得益于一个来自微软的气候创新基金的投资。从9100万美元当11月圆关闭。扩展的C系列,参与投资者包括全等企业和威灵顿管理(共同),蓝色地球,人行道上基础设施合作伙伴,道Capital Partners XN,红杉资本,全球之声,合资企业和英勇Equity Partners,带来AMP总提高到约1.78亿美元。“资本是帮助我们扩展我们的业务,包括部署技术改造现有回收基础设施解决方案和扩大新的基础设施基于我们AI-powered自动化的应用,”创始人兼首席执行官Matanya霍洛维茨告诉TechCrunch通过电子邮件。霍洛维茨在2014年创办了AMP从加州理工学院获得博士学位后。在追求博士学位,他说他看到了计算机视觉变得多么强大,并开始探索不同领域的技术可能是最有用的——包括回收。“参观后回收设施,看到不仅要求条件是如何,但有挑战性的工作环境,我意识到这对机器人产业是一个引人注目的机会,“霍洛维茨说。“机器学习的收敛和机器人提供了令人信服的机会自动化历来是劳动密集型的任务,高成本,并限制不一致。从安保机器人“分选机的机器。这也是有利可图的。回收行业近1170亿美元有助于美国经济,根据研究所的废品回收行业,和1.3亿吨的工业进程每年有价值的商品。 Horowitz asserts that landfilled plastics represent significant losses to the U.S. economy — an average of around $7.2 billion in 2019, per the Department of Energy (DoE). Of the estimated 44 million metric tons of plastic waste managed domestically in 2019, approximately 86% was landfilled, 9% was combusted and 5% was recycled, according to the DoE. The recovery of U.S. plastic packaging and food-service plastic alone could represent a pool of earnings of $2 billion to $4 billion per year, Horowitz estimates. AMP’s primary customers are recycling facilities, who use the startup’s flagship product, a robotic sorting system called AMP Cortex, to sort, pick and reclaim plastics, cardboard, paper, cans, cartons and other containers and packaging types. AMP claims that Cortex can perform 80 to 120 picks per minute while remaining accurate with respect to what it’s sorting where. Recently, AMP, which employs a team of around 200 people, unveiled a more compact solution dubbed AMP Cortex-C alongside an integrated, standalone facility offering for waste management companies. Horowitz says that the company’s robotic fleet of around 275 is now deployed in over 100 centers including several owned by Waste Connections, its largest customer, and that AMP’s AI platform has identified over 75 billion objects to date. “Our broad product suite directly deals with the core challenges of operating recycling facilities, and we have some other amazing technology soon to come,” Horowitz added. “We have a number of larger opportunities in front of us, from opportunities in Europe and across the world, to large, fleet-wide deployments of robots and deployment of fully automated sorting facilities. The capital helps us build the technologies and team to support these opportunities.” On the subject, AMP plans to grow its secondary sortation business in the U.S. across its three production facilities in the Denver, Atlanta and Cleveland metro areas. In addition to providing robotics infrastructure and software to customers, AMP resells recyclable commodities like bespoke chemical and polymer blends to end-market buyers.