In recent years, with the continuous development of science and technology and the pursuit of production efficiency, robots are more and more widely used in industrial production. Robot is a new production tool in industrial production. This paper mainly studies the sensing and recognition technology of industrial robots and their motion control principle. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the main research directions and important design methods of industrial robots. The research methods used in this paper are literature analysis, case analysis, and review. The research object is the sensing and recognition function of the industrial robot itself, as well as its motion and control parts. The main tools used in the study are various literature database websites, and the experimental data are also extracted from the papers in the database. This paper finds that the key research of industrial robots today is to make their recognition function powerful and strive to optimize their motion ability.