The mathematical process of recovering the movements of an object from some other data, such as a film of those movements; it is useful in robotics and in creating animations.

In robot kinematics, forward kinematics refers to the use of the kinematic equations of a robot to compute the position of the end-effector from specified values for the joint parameters.

In robotics, robot kinematics applies geometry to the study of the movement of multi-degree of freedom kinematic chains that form the structure of robotic systems.

In astronomy, stellar kinematics is the observational study or measurement of the kinematics or motions of stars through space.