Aiming at the problems of traditional rigid picking manipulators, such as small scope of application, poor environmental adaptability and great damage to fruits and vegetables, a rigid-flexible coupling pneumatic soft picking manipulator for crabapple picking was designed. According to the characteristics and picking requirements of crabapple, the six-finger wrapped picking form was determined. Taking Longfeng fruit as an example, the bending angle calculation model for the soft finger of picking manipulator was established, and the bending angle of single finger was determined; the HY-E620 type silicone was selected as the material of soft fingers through the tensile contrast experiment of three kinds of silicone materials; the ABAQUS finite element simulation analysis of the influence of various structures on the bending performance of soft fingers was carried out, and the optimal structure was determined; the corresponding relationships between the bending angle and the output force of a single soft finger under different driving pressure conditions were measured by experiments, and the three-finger grasping experiment for various fruits under the driving pressure of 0.08 MPa was carried out, which verified the rationality of the soft finger structure. Finally, a six-finger wrapped pneumatic soft picking manipulator was trial-produced, and the picking experiments were carried out on crabapple, apple, pear and orange. The results showed that the designed picking manipulator could not only pick clustering crabapples containing 3?6 fruits with a success rate of 80%, but also pick apples, pears, oranges and other spherical fruits, which had a certain versatility, and could provide a new idea for the design and research of fruit picking manipulator.