The invention discloses a motor control network and method for a surgical robot. The surgical robot comprises N mechanical arms, the motor control network comprises a master controller, a first-stage CAN bus, second-stage CAN buses corresponding to the mechanical arms respectively, a plurality of stations located on each mechanical arm, and motors correspondingly connected with the stations. The stations on each mechanical arm comprise one relay station. The number of the stations on each of the first-stage CAN bus and the second-stage CAN buses is greatly reduced, the probability of data frame conflicting is reduced, and the transmission delay time of part of communication data is shortened; in addition, the communication traffic on each CAN bus is greatly reduced; when ports of the stations on a certain mechanical arm break down, the other mechanical arms of the surgical robot cannot be influenced, high stability is achieved, and the overall performance is good.