Abstract: Along with the serious competition in the world market the technologies are developing with leaps and bounds.Firstly,based on the requirements adv anced by the development of the manufacturing technologies and the technology possibilities to satisfy these requirements,the active prospects of industrial robots in the agile manufacturing and the developments of their various aspects to satisfy the agile manufac-turing are reviewed and discussed.Secondly,based on the requirements advanced by the various non-manu-facturing enterprises,such as space industries,marine exploration and exploitation industries,coalex traction and other mining industries,and service enter prises,the developments of the various prospects of tele-oper-ated robots are discussed.