中文摘要：

回顾了过去20年中模块化可重构机器人的发展历史，介绍了模块化可重构机器人的概念、特点、分类方法及这一领域的主要研究内容和现在的最新进展情况。概述了我国在模块化可重构机器人技术上所取得的成就。最后，对模块化可重构机器人未来发展的关键技术及可能遇到的各种挑战进行了预测，为未来该技术的发展提供了方向。

英文摘要：

Firstly, the deveopment history of modular reconfigurable robot in the past two decades was reviewed. The modular reconfigurable robot concept, characteristics, classifying method, the main research content and the latest study status were also introduced. Then technology performances of our country in modular reconfigurable were summarized. In the last section, key technology and challenges of future development were forecasted, which may provide a direction of modular reconfigurable robot for future development.