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URDF Viewer

URDF Structure Viewer

Upload a URDF file, paste XML, or try a sample to visualize the robot's link-joint structure.

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Accepted formats: .urdf, .xml

What is URDF?

URDF (Unified Robot Description Format) is an XML format used in robotics to describe a robot's physical structure. It defines links (rigid bodies like arms, wheels, or sensors) and joints (connections between links that define how they move relative to each other).

Links

Rigid bodies of the robot. Each link can have visual geometry (how it looks), collision geometry (for physics), and inertial properties (mass and moments).

Joints

Connections between links. Types include revolute (rotary with limits), continuous (unlimited rotation), prismatic (linear slide), and fixed (rigid connection).