Abstract: The livestock and poultry breeding industry is an important part of China's agriculture. The continuous growth of the scale of breeding has constantly increased the requirements for intelligent breeding technology. With the lack of breeding talents, the demand for intelligent and unmanned breeding technology is increasing. At present, China's aquaculture industry is at the initial stage of intelligent animal husbandry, and intelligent technology is gradually being applied to the livestock and poultry breeding industry, which is in its infancy. By summarizing the machine learning, image recognition, expert system, neural network, natural language processing and other technologies used by experts and scholars at home and abroad in the field of artificial intelligence in livestock and poultry breeding industry, this paper analyzes the application and development process of current artificial intelligence technology in the main application scenarios of livestock and poultry breeding industry, such as environmental control, precision feeding, health management, egg and milk management, and manure treatment. Based on the application of the most mainstream artificial intelligence technology at home and abroad in the field of livestock and poultry breeding, and the development of robot technology in replacing artificial breeding，through the continuous efforts of researchers and production personnel, artificial intelligence technology has been gradually applied in conventional feeding, environmental control and fecal sewage treatment, and as a result, intelligent robots for livestock breeding production management have being including disinfection and sterilization robots, egg picking robots, milking robots, intelligent patrol robots, and fecal cleaning robots. However, due to the late start of China's intelligent breeding industry, independent research and development, integrated intelligent breeding equipment and intelligent breeding technology have not been formed and there is also a lack of attention to the welfare of breeding animals, and the pollution generated in the breeding process is also relatively serious. On this basis, a proposal to research and develop multifunctional breeding robots based on domestic chips is put forward. By drawing on the experience of developed countries in animal husbandry, looking forward to the industrial demand and development prospect of the application of artificial intelligence technology in China's intelligent livestock and poultry farms, and putting forward technical research and industrial application suggestions, this study aims to provide a certain idea for the development of artificial intelligence technology in the field of livestock and poultry breeding in the future.

Key words: livestock and poultry breeding, smart breeding, artificial intelligence, image recognition, precision feeding, robot