This research relates to the patent application tendency about the hardware platform of the intelligent robot among the robotics industry in which the market is more and more expanded. The patent about the hardware field of intelligent robot was analyzed from not only Korea but also U.S., Japanese and Europe which is called as the 3 pole of patent. By this research the government which supervises the nation's research policy can obtain the objective information of the industrial tendency, so it can establish the investment policy of national research and development. And the researchers can set up the research direction for evasion from patent infringement trouble by obtaining the patent application information. This also shows whether their research can be competitive or not.