This document discusses kinematic analysis of robots. It defines kinematics as the study of motion without consideration of forces. It describes different types of robot joints including revolute, prismatic, and spherical joints. It explains that a robot's configuration is specified by the positions of its joints and can be represented spatially or by joint coordinates. The document also defines a robot's workspace as the area it can reach and discusses determining a robot's degrees of freedom and end effector pose from its joint parameters.