The present application provides an intelligent scheduling system for vending robots and a corresponding method. The system comprises: at least one video monitor, configured to acquire a population image of a plurality of regions and obtain population density information of the plurality of regions by performing image processing on the population image; and a scheduling control server configured to allocate at least one vending robot to the plurality of regions according to the population density information of the plurality of regions and transmit, to the allocated at least one vending robot, a scheduling instruction which specifies a position of a region to which it is allocated, wherein the at least one vending robot is configured to autonomously move to the position of the region to which it is allocated for selling goods according to the scheduling instruction which specifies the position of the region from the scheduling control background server.