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How AMP Robotics is changing recycling; Festo wins gripper challenge

By Steve Crowe | January 6, 2021

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Welcome to Episode 29 of The Robot Report Podcast, which brings conversations with robotics innovators straight to you. Join us each week for discussions with leading roboticists, innovative robotics companies, and other key members of the robotics community.

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I chat with Matanya Horowitz, founder and CEO of AMP Robotics. We discuss how AMP’s pick-and-place robots are improving the economics of the recycling industry. AMP raised a $55 million Series B to kick off 2021, so we unpack how the new funding will enable AMP to scale its current technology and develop new initiatives. Matanya discusses the technical and business challenges AMP faces, as well as the evolution of its custom vision system and gripper.

Matanya tells a valuable story about how the data collected by AMP’s vision system is opening up new revenue streams. Some customers are interested in using just AMP’s vision system, not the robots, to learn more about the quality of recyclable materials in the waste stream. I’ve talked to Fetch Robotics a lot about doing something similar with the data collected by its autonomous mobile robots.

I also spoke to Josh Fox, an applications engineer at Festo USA. Josh was part of the team that won the recent MassRobotics-GM Gripper Challenge. Josh takes us inside the challenges and details the universal end effector Festo developed to handle a variety of sheet metal parts. The photo below is the best photo we’ve been able to track down about the winning end effector.

MassRobotics GM Gripper Challenge

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Podcast timestamps

  • 0-2:22: Show Intro
  • 2:23-34:43 Conversation with Matanya Horowitz, founder and CEO, AMP Robotics
  • 34:44-50:00 Conversation with Josh Fox, applications engineer, Festo USA
  • 50:01-50:50 Show Outro

Show notes

  • AMP Robotics raises $55M for recycling robots
  • MassRobotics GM Gripper Challenge
  • Top 10 podcast episodes of 2020

About The Author

Steve Crowe

Steve Crowe is Editorial Director, Robotics, WTWH Media, and co-chair of the Robotics Summit & Expo. He joined WTWH Media in January 2018 after spending four-plus years as Managing Editor of Robotics Trends Media. He can be reached at [email protected]

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