Abstract: Robot is an important grasp to seize the highland of scientific and technological innovation in our country, whether the robot can release the green dividend has become an important research topic. The existing literature on the relationship between industrial robot application and green transformation has not yet reached an agreement. Based on the different choices of industrial robot application modes, this study divides the industrial robot application into two dimensions: application breadth and application depth, explores its impact and mechanism on the green transformation of enterprises. The results show that, firstly, the wider the application of industrial robots, the higher the level of green transformation of enterprises. The higher the application depth of industrial robots, the higher the level of green transformation of enterprises. Compared with the application breadth, the green promotion effect of the application depth of industrial robots is stronger. Secondly, the application breadth and depth of industrial robots achieve green transformation by promoting enterprise factor input intensification and output structure optimization. Thirdly, the higher the environmental attention of enterprises, the stronger the role of the breadth and depth of application of industrial robots in promoting the green transformation of enterprises. Fourthly, the promotion effect of the breadth and depth of application of industrial robots on the green transformation of enterprises exists for a long time, but the duration of the breadth of application is longer. This paper provides some policy implications for how industrial robots and other AI technologies can enable the green development of China's economy.