James Servos
Head Of Research And Development - Robotics Center Of Excellence at Rockwell Automation
Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Servos is a robotics and autonomy leader with 13 years of experience building perception, SLAM, planning, and AI-driven systems for industrial mobile robots. Currently Head of R&D at Rockwell Automation’s Robotics Center of Excellence, he has founded and scaled teams that span cloud-to-controller software, simulation, and real-world deployment. His career includes senior roles at Locus Robotics, OTTO by Rockwell, and Clearpath, where he drove strategic roadmaps and cross-sector research collaborations to advance navigation, mapping, and deep learning for autonomy. James pairs hands-on algorithmic work with program-level product and people leadership, often contributing directly to perception and SLAM codebases. Based in Kitchener, Ontario with an MASc in Autonomous Mobile Robotics from University of Waterloo, he excels at turning cutting-edge research into reliable industrial systems. An under-the-radar strength is his consistent focus on building end-to-end stacks—sensors to fleet orchestration—that keep robots running in highly dynamic, uptime-critical environments.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Applied Science, Autonomous Mobile Robotics, Master of Applied Science, Autonomous Mobile Robotics at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (69)
apriltags10
fiducial-markers10
localization10
sensor-fusion10
sensor10
detector10
wrapper10
nodes10
fusion10
robot10
calibration10
architecture9
robotics9
nonlinear9
fuse9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
clearpathrobotics/laser_geometry
Nov 2016 - Jan 2021
Provides the LaserProjection class for turning laser scan data into point clouds.
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 4 branches in 4 years 3 months
scanlaserpoint-cloudsturningpoint
servos/resume
Jul 2014 - Apr 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 5 pushes in 6 years 10 months
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