The Key Laboratory of Underwater Robot Technology, facing the strategic needs of the nation for naval equipment construction and ocean economy, sets its mission to the development of naval equipment like underwater robots. The tasks of the laboratory are to conduct fundamental research and the application research activities and to tackle the key technologies in its three major areas in the field of unmanned systems like underwater robots. The laboratory also embraces the group intelligence technologies and environmental awareness during its R&D activities. After more than ten years of construction and operation, the laboratory has become a research base of China for underwater robot technology and a base for training and cultivating high-level compound talents.