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In this study, we use EPA-Walker, a bio-inspired robot actuated by electric motors and pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs), as a physical platform to investigate perturbed standing. Here, we focus on the PAM-driven actuation to systematically examine the roles of muscle morphology and control, and to validate biomechanical findings in a robotic setting. To enable a clear upper body perturbation, a Control Moment Gyroscope (CMG) was integrated. We evaluated two stabilization paradigms: passive standing, in which joint compliance was tuned through static PAM pressurization, and active balancing, in which a bio-inspired ground reaction force (GRF) feedback controller generated muscle reflexes. The results showed that biarticular thigh muscles, particularly the hamstrings and rectus femoris, played the most prominent role in enhancing robustness through both morphology in the passive experiments and reflex control in the active experiments, consistent with findings from human perturbation studies. While ankle muscles, such as the soleus, were essential for stable standing mainly through their passive morphological contribution, their reflex-based action could also improve robustness in a more specific manner through center-of-pressure regulation. Activating a single muscle could significantly improve robustness beyond morphology, enabling recovery from\n                    <jats:inline-formula>\n                      <mml:math xmlns:mml=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1998\/Math\/MathML\" id=\"m1\">\n                        <mml:mrow>\n                          <mml:mn>3<\/mml:mn>\n                          <mml:mtext>\u2009<\/mml:mtext>\n                          <mml:mi>N<\/mml:mi>\n                          <mml:mi>m<\/mml:mi>\n                        <\/mml:mrow>\n                      <\/mml:math>\n                    <\/jats:inline-formula>\n                    perturbations. 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Our contribution highlights the synchronization of control strategies with the underlying morphological design through a universal sensory feedback signal, namely, GRF. 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