Manvel will be speaking at PyData Yerevan on July 24–25 in Yerevan, Armenia. The talk — “I Built a Self-Driving Robot in Python for $500. Here’s What Broke” — covers how to make Python viable for real-time robotics, squeeze performance from constrained hardware, and train sim-to-real RL policies in JAX. Plus the hard lessons from when your robot meets actual sidewalks, snow, and puddles.