The invention discloses an industrial robot for intelligently detecting an oil and gas pipeline and belongs to the field of detection of the oil and gas pipeline and the field of the industrial robot.The industrial robot comprises a flexible body, a rotating device, a rotating platform, an ultrasonic wave receiving and transmitting device, a liquid washing device and a surface drying device, wherein the flexible body is used for connecting a driving main body with a detecting main body; the rotating device is installed on the detecting main body; the rotating platform is installed on the rotating device; the ultrasonic wave receiving and transmitting device, the liquid washing device and the surface drying device are installed on the rotating platform; the flexible body is manufactured from a nonmetal hollow circular tube which can have flexible deformation; and a metal spiral spring for connecting the driving main body with the detecting main body is installed inside the hollow circular tube. The industrial robot for intelligently detecting the oil and gas pipeline, disclosed by the invention, has the flexible body, can move forwards tortuously inside a bent pipeline and simultaneously is used for implementing non-destructive detection on micro-defects of the inner wall of the pipeline.