A novel 6-degree-of-freedom (DoF) parallel manipulator with three planar mechanism limbs is proposed and its kinematics and statics are analyzed systematically. First, the characteristics of the proposed manipulator are analyzed and the degree of freedom is calculated. Second, the formulae for solving the displacement, the velocity, and the acceleration are derived. Third, an analytic example is given for solving the kinematics and statics of this manipulator, and the analytic solved results are analyzed and verified by the simulation mechanism. Finally, a workspace is constructed and analyzed based on a comparison between the proposed manipulator and another 6-DoF parallel manipulator.