Over 60 years of development， underground drilling equipment for coal mines has been developed in multiple sizes and series which meet the requirements of various purposes and various drilling hole depth. However， the existing proven drilling equipment mainly runs with full hydraulic drive and manual operation. With the great investment in the intelligent construction by China’s coal mining enterprises， the traditional full hydraulic drive underground drilling equipment can not meet the current needs of intelligent development of coal mines. In regard to the construction characteristics of underground drilling， this paper analyzes the technical status and functional characteristics of typical underground drilling equipment abroad， as well as the existing problems， with focus on the progress of domestic underground drilling equipment with different construction requirements in terms of intelligence， and introduces the conventional automatic drilling machine， drilling robot， high-power automatic directional drilling machine. The key problems to be solved in the intelligent construction of underground drilling equipment in China are put forward， and the intelligent level of underground drilling equipment in coal mines is accelerated through the distributed implementation mode.