A welding torch and a welding robot are provided in which a conduit cable and a cooling water hose do not interfere with peripheral devices or the like. A welding torch (21) having a flange portion (22) to be coupled to a wrist (3) of a robot, a shock sensor (23) attached to the flange portion (22), and a nozzle (24) attached to the shock sensor (23), the welding torch (21) comprising: a wire feeding pipe socket (24) arranged at a center of the flange portion (22); a cooling pipe socket (26) arranged at a position offset from a central portion of the flange portion (22); and a cooling hose (27) for feeding cooling water from the flange portion (22) to the nozzle (24) while bypassing the shock sensor (23). Moreover, an industrial robot has the welding torch (21) at a hollow wrist portion (3) thereof, and a welding wire and the cooling water are fed to the welding torch (21) through the hollow wrist portion (3).