yourdfpy
- Software
- Simulators
- Library
A Python library for loading, manipulating, validating, saving and visualizing URDF robot description files, offering a simpler alternative to other URDF parsers.
Source on GitHub: github.com/clemense/yourdfpy (opens in a new tab). Facts read at commit e16b857 (opens in a new tab).
Licenses
- Code
- MIT (opens in a new tab)
Read by Robotheca from LICENSE.txt (opens in a new tab) (MIT) at commit e16b857 (opens in a new tab), on 16 Oct 2026.
- Commercial use
- Yes
What it does
- Parses URDF files with parsing decoupled from validation and from loading meshes.
- Visualizes a URDF model from the command line via a yourdfpy command.
- Provides keyboard shortcuts to toggle axis markers, wireframe mode and back face culling during visualization.
- Supports forward kinematics.
- Reports loading 12 of 12 URDF files from a robot-assets collection, versus 4/12 for urdfpy and 6/12 for urdf_parser_py.
- Installable from pip.
Written by Robotheca from the project's README (opens in a new tab) at commit e16b857.
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
- 10 May 2026 on main
- Latest release
- v0.0.60 (23 Jan 2026)
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.
Robotheca lists software as a reference: nothing is hosted or run here, and every fact links to where it was read.