About angles

Why are they important in robotics?

The definition of angles is something that every roboticist shares! It’s important so that we can work together to communicate program things.

  • We define an anticlockwise rotation as a positive angle.
  • And we define a clockwise rotation as a negative angle!

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See it in action

Have a play about with the animation of the robot arm below to get a feel for how this works.

See the Pen Robot arm (Joint Angles v1) by Ben (@benisme) on CodePen.