Abstract: For the past decade, seals comeback with a high profile and present huge market prospects (Made in China 2025); however, their development is still not going well due to that tribological failure and low reliability. In particular, seals greatly determine the functionality and performance of huge machine, which are critical for huge machine and robots to catch up with the world's advanced level. Then, state-of-the-art of elastomer wear, lubrication, interfacial instability, etc. have been analyzed and discussed. And those related fundamental theory, numerical calculation methods, experimental rigs in related with the rubber tribology were also introduced. Hopefully, this work can provide references for the effective integration of tribology study and industrial applications for the seals and sealing fields.