Environmental pollution has brought great changes to the marine ecology and will have a serious impact on human life.Investigation of bionic robots to monitor the beach environment in real time can effectively solve this problem.Therefore,a cable-driven flexoskeleton bionic crab robot is proposed.Firstly,a rigid-flexible coupling model is established to study the motion law of the flexible foot end.Secondly,control method of the bionic crab based on a mobile phone application(APP)is studied,and the response characteristics and motion characteristics of the bionic crab robot are experimentally studied.Then,the obstacle-crossing ability of the bionic crab on various beaches is tested,and multiple bionic crabs are controlled simultaneously to test the cluster control performance of the mobile phone APP.Finally,the robot is used to monitor six beaches in Bohai Bay and capture beach environment images and parameters.The research on the bionic crab robot provides an effective method for beach monitoring.