The invention discloses a six-degree-of-freedom flexible mechanical arm driven by pneumatic muscles, which mainly comprises a mechanical arm fixing platform, a shoulder joint, a shoulder joint drive, an elbow joint, an elbow joint drive, a wrist joint and a wrist joint drive, wherein the shoulder joint drive is arranged on the mechanical arm fixing platform, the pneumatic muscles are connected in parallel to drive a shaft and a rotor so as to realize te shoulder joint rotates around an Y shaft and a Z shaft, the elbow joint adopts a Hooke joint mechanism, four muscles work in parallel to realize the elbow joint rotates around the Z shaft and the Y shaft, the wrist joint adopts a Hooke joint mechanism, and four muscles work in parallel to realize the wrist joint rotates around the Z shaft and the Y shaft. The invention solves the use defects of the present mechanical arm, has the advantages of novel and simple structure, easy control, flexibility, strong bearing capacity, high precision, no accumulated error, quick response, large rigidity and dynamic property, and the like, and has very high value in use in dangerous working environment by controlling the mechanical arm remotely.