Current Researches and Future Development Trend of Intelligent Robot: A Review

With the advancing of industrialization and the advent of the information age, intelligent robots play an increasingly important role in intelligent manufacturing, intelligent transportation system, the Internet of things, medical health and intelligent services. Based on working experiences in and reviews on intelligent robot studies both in China and abroad, the authors summarized researches on key and leading technologies related to human-robot collaboration, driverless technology, emotion recognition, brain-computer interface, bionic software robot and cloud platform, big data network, etc. The development trend of intelligent robot was discussed, and reflections on and suggestions to intelligent robot development in China were proposed. The review is not only meant to overview leading technologies of intelligent robot all over the world, but also provide related theories, methods and technical guidance to the technological and industrial development of intelligent robot in China. © 2018, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.