The current robotics industry mainly includes industrial robots, service robots, special robots, etc. Intelligence is the focus of the subsequent development of the robotics industry, while maintaining technological innovation is the focus of industrial development.

Industrial robots have become an important technology for promoting the digital and intelligent transformation and upgrading of traditional manufacturing. The manufacturing industry is an important indicator of a country's competitiveness and an important component of the national economic entity. In 2010, China's total manufacturing output value had surpassed that of the United States, becoming a world manufacturing power, but not yet a manufacturing powerhouse. Due to the backwardness of production methods in China's manufacturing industry, many industrial productions are still labor-intensive industries with low labor costs as the main competitive means, resulting in low technological content and product added value. With the decrease in the number of eligible labor force and the increase in labor costs in our country, the advantage of demographic dividend has been lost, and the low-end manufacturing model centered on low-cost labor is facing severe challenges. China needs to accelerate industrial restructuring, promote the transformation and upgrading of the manufacturing industry, and promote the transformation from labor-intensive models to information-based and automated production methods. At present, China's industrial development has entered a critical period of upgrading and transformation. To improve the technological level of China's manufacturing industry through industrial upgrading and transformation, and to build China from a manufacturing power to a manufacturing powerhouse, this is a major matter related to the survival of the country.

As an important component of manufacturing equipment, industrial robots have obvious industrial characteristics. Industrial robots are an important carrier for achieving digitalization, intelligence, and informatization in the manufacturing industry. Robots and their automation equipment as the main body are driving the upgrading of the manufacturing industry from intensive manual work to informatization and automation. It is an important path to improve the quality and competitiveness of the manufacturing industry. The development of industrial robots towards digitalization and intelligence will undoubtedly promote the arrival of China's third industrial revolution.

Service robot technology is an important technological guarantee for serving people's livelihoods and aging society. The aging population, a large number of people with disabilities, and significant regional differences in social service levels in China have become prominent issues that constrain the harmonious development of society. It is urgent to promote the rapid development of people's livelihood technology represented by domestic services, elderly assistance, disability assistance, and medical robots. The Outline of the National Medium - and Long Term Science and Technology Development Plan (2006-2020) clearly identifies service robots as a strategic high-tech priority for future development. In 2013, the number of elderly people aged 60 and above in China reached 202 million, with an aging rate of 14.8%. Among them, there were over 40 million disabled elderly, and the elderly dependency ratio reached 21.58%. The family structure in our country poses severe challenges to traditional family elderly care methods, increasing social pressure on elderly care, and has become a social issue of concern throughout the country. At the same time, the total number of people with disabilities in China has reached 82.96 million. The development of rehabilitation aids is an effective means to help disabled people return to society and an important indicator of the country's social development level.

Currently, the development characteristics and trends of robotics technology are intelligence and the integration of human robot interaction. Intelligence is the third stage of robot development, and robots with perception and autonomous behavior control functions have become a development trend. Environmental perception and cognition, autonomous decision-making and behavior control in complex and unknown unstructured environments have become key technologies for the development of intelligent robots. Integration with humans is a common feature of the new generation of robots. The workspace of traditional industrial robots is isolated from humans, using pre programmed control and interactive teaching boxes, and there is no safety guarantee. The new generation of robots and humans work in the same natural space, with close coordination and cooperation, requiring natural interaction with humans to ensure the safety of robot work.

In order to achieve the interaction and integration between robots and humans, it is necessary to solve problems such as environmental understanding, intelligent control, behavioral safety, and human-machine interaction. Among them, environmental understanding issues include the perception and understanding of natural, unpredictable, and complex dynamic environments by robots; The intelligent control problem refers to the intelligent decision-making and control of robots in situations where the goals and tasks are more diverse, the operational flexibility is higher, the degree of human-machine cooperation is deeper, and the process is more complex and variable; Behavioral safety issues include technologies that ensure human machine object safety when physical boundaries disappear, close contact occurs, and close cooperation occurs between robots and humans; Human computer interaction problems include human-computer interaction technologies that enable robots and humans to adapt to each other and possess characteristics such as intelligence, robustness, friendliness, and safety.