Keeping Your Lab Up to Date — TrainIt Is Now Inside ROS2ML

The Industrial ROS2 Manipulation Lab is a living project. I keep it updated so your robotics experience stays current and in step with the tools the industry actually uses. On September 17, 2026 I shipped an important update: TrainIt is now integrated into the lab.

What is TrainIt? (in one minute)

TrainIt is a professional framework for building robot-cell applications without writing all the plumbing by hand. Its Setup Assistant lets you configure a robotic cell — robot, gripper, scene, motion — and generates a ready-to-run application bundle, and its Motion Runtime executes it. Think of it as the fast path from “I have a cell” to “it runs” — complementary to the hand-built framework you learn in the paid modules, which teaches you the architecture underneath.

Good news: TrainIt (Community) ships in every edition — Starter, Simulation, and Full — so you have it whatever tier you’re on.

How to get the update (if you cloned the lab before)

You don’t re-clone. Just update the folder where you already cloned the lab:

cd <the folder where you cloned the lab>   # the one that contains ./scripts/lab
git pull
./scripts/lab build

• git pull fetches the latest lab, including the TrainIt recipe.
• ./scripts/lab build pulls in TrainIt and rebuilds only what’s new — it does not re-download the whole environment. The big Docker image stays cached; you’ll only see a small dependency layer plus TrainIt itself. It takes a couple of minutes.

If you’re cloning the lab for the first time now, you already have everything — nothing extra to do.

After the build you’ll also find a ready-made example generated with TrainIt in the workspace (the yt_ur5_robotiq_* packages). Run it, study it as a reference, then create your own bundle.

Make git pull a habit

The lab evolves. Before each session, it’s good practice to run a quick git pull (and ./scripts/lab build if anything changed) in your lab folder to pick up new features and fixes. You won’t lose your own work, and the build stays incremental.

Keeping the lab current is my job — so that every time you sit down, you’re working with an up-to-date, industry-relevant robotics environment. Thanks for being part of it. 🚀