urchin
- Software
- Simulators
- Library
Urchin is a Python library for loading and handling URDF robot description files, forked from the unmaintained urdfpy. It can be installed from pip.
Source on GitHub: github.com/fishbotics/urchin (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit dbc743e (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- MIT (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit dbc743e (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Forked from urdfpy, which is no longer updated; the API is mostly unchanged.
- Adds a lazy_load_meshes=True option to URDF.load, which skips mesh loading and is much faster.
- Relies on the urdfpy documentation for usage details until it diverges enough to need its own docs.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit dbc743e.
Getting started
- Difficulty
- Beginner
- How to start
- The project's README (opens in a new tab)
Maintenance
- Status
- Maintained: a commit in the last 12 months
- Newest commit
- 21 Oct 2025 on main
- Latest release
- v0.0.29 (25 Oct 2024)
Checked on GitHub on 16 Oct 2026.
Links
Robots that can run it
No robot on Robotheca is linked to it yet. Links come from a robot's robot.yaml, from its dependency files read as text, or from Robotheca's editors.
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