“综合技术”是现代科学技术发展的一大特点。机器人就是综合技术的典型代表。它是自动化技术高度发展的产物,也是控制论、仿生学、计算机科学以及运动学、动力学的研究目标之一。本文全面介绍并分析了目前国外工业机器人技术,特别是工业机器人的传动机构及其控制技术的现状、存在问题及今后的研究课题。同时也对未来机器人作了预测与展望。 “Integrated Technology” is a major feature of the development of modern science and technology. Robots are the typical representatives of integrated technology. It is a highly developed product of automation technology and one of the objectives of cybernetics, bionics, computer science, and kinematics and dynamics. This paper introduces and analyzes the current status, existing problems and future research topics of industrial robotics in foreign countries, especially industrial robots and their control technologies. At the same time, the future robots are predicted and predicted.