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It looks like you are using ROS Hydro, there is no package called "gazebo" in Hydro, it has been replaced with gazebo_ros.
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It looks like you are using ROS Hydro, there is no package called "gazebo" in Hydro, it has been replaced with gazebo_ros.. Additionally, this page has really good information about how to launch a URDF in gazebo from ROS. Here is their example:
<!-- Spawn a robot into Gazebo -->
<node name="spawn_urdf" pkg="gazebo_ros" type="spawn_model" args="-file $(find baxter_description)/urdf/baxter.urdf -urdf -z 1 -model baxter" />
It looks like what you are doing should work, you're just using the wrong "pkg". Also I notice you have ../robots/hexapod_launch.URDF-urdf"
There should be a space between .URDF and -urdf.
Long story short, try this
<node
name="spawn_model"
pkg="gazebo_ros"
type="spawn_model"
args="-file ../robots/hexapod_launch.URDF -urdf -model hexapod_launch"
output="screen" />
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