A waldo that consists of an entire moveable body (as opposed to just an appendage); the device used to operate such a waldo. Compare waldo.
- 1963 P. Anderson After Doomsday (1968) № 98: They're remote-control mechanisms [...]. Yes, they're just body-waldos.
- 1973 J. Tiptree, Jr. Girl Who Was Plugged In Screwtop/Girl Who Was Plugged In (1989) № 26: Three thousand miles north and five hundred feet down a forgotten hulk in a body-waldo glows.
- 1999 H. Clement Half Life (2000) № 16: The exceptions were Goodall, whose own senses were drowned in pain too much of the time to let him use a body waldo safely.
