The invention discloses a manipulator with a motion controlled by a torsion spring and steering engines. The manipulator comprises a palm, a thumb, a forefinger, a middle finger, a ring finger and a little finger; an external part of the palm includes a hand back stopper, a hand back block, a palm block, a palm stopper and a thumb pressing block; the thumb pressing block is aslant inserted in a groove in the thumb position on the hand back block; the palm block is tightly combined with the hand back block and the thumb pressing block through a lap of limiting structures, and is locked with the same through a center bolt and a center nut in middle; the palm stopper and the hand back stopper are respectively clamped in grooves of the palm block and the hand back block for covering the center bolt and the center nut; and an internal part of the palm includes a steering engine bracket, five steering engines, five coil tillers, a thumb guide frame and a four-finger guide frame, wherein the five coil tillers are locked on output shafts of the five steering engines through screws. The manipulator is flexible and light in structure and simple and precious in control, improves the simulation capacity, and is low in cost and simple and beautiful in appearance.