Given the practical application background of installing underground pipelines in coal mine tunnels and the actual environmental conditions underground, a jointed tunnel pipeline installation robot was designed. The detailed design of the robotic arm structure was completed, along with its 3D modeling. The kinematic model of the robot was established, and MATLAB was employed to verify the forward and inverse kinematics of the robotic arm. Based on the established kinematic model, a trajectory planning algorithm for the Cartesian space of the robotic arm was designed, and MATLAB and ADAMS software were used to verify the robotic arm through simulation experiments. The simulation demonstrates that the structural design of the robotic arm is reasonable, and the trajectory planning scheme for the robotic arm is feasible.