Simon Birrell
Engineering Fellow & Advisor at RobotLux Ltd.
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolSimon Birrell is an engineering fellow, founder and CEO with over a decade of experience turning robotics and AI research into commercial products and scalable SaaS platforms. With a PhD in AI and robotics from Cambridge, he has built and led startups across healthcare, agritech, media and financial services, including creating the world’s first robot for automated lettuce harvesting and now commercialising a histopathology automation system. He blends hands-on coding and system architecture with strategic scenario planning, corporate storytelling and VC experience, having scaled revenues and remote engineering teams across multiple continents. As CTO and founder he has shipped full-stack SaaS platforms (Rails, React) integrating telephony, CRM and large-scale marketing systems, and more recently designed validation frameworks for LLM outputs and multi-RAG architectures. Fluent in Spanish, he thrives on building multicultural teams and navigating university–industry partnerships to move research into the market. Notably, his career spans early VR pioneer work to modern AI robotics commercialization, demonstrating uncommon continuity from creative tech to cutting-edge lab automation.
10 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.) Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD.) Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at University of Cambridge
English, Spanish
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Github Skills (65)
ros10
robotics9
toolbox9
lists9
python8
deep-learning8
stable-baselines8
robustness8
gpu8
planning8
robot8
machine-learning8
moveit8
reinforcement-learning7
motion-planning7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
SimonBirrell/vegebot
Apr 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:102 commits in 1 year 1 month
manacoa/luxagent
Oct 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:32 pushes in 7 months
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