With the rapid development of society, the continuous progress of science and technology, the change of industrial production mode, the era of artificial intelligence is unstoppable, especially robot has been more widely promoted and applied.The outstanding advantages of industrial robot are high precision, high working efficiency, being able to withstand greater labor intensity, and creating higher quality conditions for the production and quality improvement of the whole industrial field.It can be seen that the industrial robot has become the trend and direction of the development of modern industry.From the point of view of industrial development, this paper expounds the characteristics of industrial robots, discusses their future development trend and direction, in order to provide greater technical support for the sustainable development of the whole industry.