The invention provides a novel biped humanoid robot system based on pneumatic artificial muscles, belongs to the technical field of robots, and in particular relates to a biped robot having powerful athletic ability and flexible humanoid characteristics. The biped humanoid robot system comprises a mechanical body and an electrical control system; the biped humanoid robot system is characterized in that the mechanical body is mainly composed of seven parts, namely a waist, a hip joint, thighs, knee joints, shanks, feet and the like, and has 13 degrees of freedom in total; in the 13 degrees of freedom, 3 degrees of freedom of the waist are realized by virtue of the cooperation of four pneumatic muscles and the waist spine, and the single degree of freedom of each of the hip joint, the knee joints and the ankle joints is realized by use of one pneumatic muscle and one spring which are pulled to each other to produce opposed rotating force. According to the design of the novel biped humanoid robot system, a control platform is provided; the system relates to the fields of control science and intelligent control in addition to robotics, and is capable of meeting the requirements of scientific research and teaching of a plurality of disciplines.