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waldo
noun
A remote manipulation system in which a slave device mimics the motions of a master device manipulated directly by the operator.
1940: Robert A. Heinlein, Waldo
: "Waldo flexed and extended his fingers gently; the two pairs of waldoes in the screen followed in exact, simultaneous parallelism."
Etymology:
From the Robert A. Heinlein story
Waldo
, published in
Astounding
in 1940, derived from the name of the eponymous protagonist, Waldo F. Jones, who invented remote manipulators to overcome his own
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