第一代机器人（First Generation Robots）：即可编程、示教再现工业机器人机器人，已进入商品化、实用化。

第二代机器人（Second Generation Robots）：装备有一定的传感装置，能获取作业环境、操作对象的简单信息，通过计算机处理、分析，能作出简单的推理，对动作进行反馈的机器人，通常称为低级智能机器人，由于信息处理系统的庞大与昂贵，第二代机器人目前只有少数可投入应用。

第三代机器人（Third Generation Robots）：具有高度适应性的自治机器人。它具有多种感知功能，可进行复杂的逻辑思维、判断决策，在作业环境中独立行动。第三代机器人又称作高级智能机器人，它与第五代计算机关系密切，目前还处于研究阶段。

-The first generation of robots (First Generation, the Robots): to programming, teaching and playback of industrial robots, the robot has entered the commercialization of practical. Second-generation robots (Second Generation, the Robots): equipped with sensing devices, operating environment, operation of the object can obtain simple information through computer processing, analysis, simple reasoning, feedback control of robot movement, often referred to as the low-level intelligent robot, information processing system is a huge and expensive, the second generation of robots present, only a few can be put into application. The third-generation robots (Third Generation, the Robots): highly adaptable autonomous robot. It has a variety of sensing function, can be complex logical thinking to determine the decision-making and independent action in the operating environment. The third-generation robots, also known as advanced intelligent robots, it is a close relationship with the fifth gener