Based on the development history of robotics, this paper presents separately the robotic past: human fantasy, robotic present: from fantasy to reality, and robotic future: Intelligent robots. The main functions, research status and application backgrounds of industrial robots, military robots, bionic robots, service robots, multi-fingered dexterous hand and humanoid robots are introduced respectively. Finally, prospects of the development of intelligent robots are discussed.

intelligent robot  /  industrial robot  /  military robot  /  bionic robot  /  serving robot  /  humanoid robot