The feedback and ideas from students—particularly those at Columbia University—were crucial to the creation of this book's second edition. A large number of the new subjects covered here are directly related to student feedback, which assisted in improving and streamlining the content. The goal of this book was to create content that the author wishes she had access to when she was a student. The second edition of Theory of Applied Robotics: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Control goes into great detail to explain robotics concepts while emphasizing their real-world applications. Real-world applications, formal proofs, and related theorems are given. Updated and expanded exercise sets and problems are included in the second edition. Updated and expanded kinematics material is included, as well as the mechanisms and parts of a robotic system with actuators, sensors, and controllers. Additionally, new information is covered in the areas of sensing and control, including acceleration, speed, and position sensors. This approachable presentation of a wide range of robotics topics, including orientation, velocity, and forward kinematics, will be valued by researchers, students, and working engineers alike.