Papers
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Total Citations
181
H-Index
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About
George Boiadjiev is a robotics and biomedical engineering researcher whose career has been defined by a singular, life-saving mission: making orthopedic surgery safer and more precise through intelligent robotic automation. His foundational work, beginning as early as 2009, pioneered the development of robotized systems for automatic bone drilling — a procedure traditionally performed by hand and fraught with risks including vessel damage, thermal necrosis, and inaccurate penetration depth. With over 30 citations, his 2013 paper on an orthopedic robotized drilling module stands as his most influential contribution, establishing key benchmarks for drilling accuracy and patient safety. Boiadjiev's research has progressively tackled the field's hardest problems: automatic far cortex detection to prevent dangerous cortex breaches, feed rate control to minimize mechanical and thermal bone damage, and femoral head structure identification to optimize hip fracture treatment. His development of compact hand-held surgical robots, including the ODRO-2 prototype, demonstrates a strong commitment to translating laboratory innovation into clinically viable tools. Beyond surgical robotics, his work on 3D-printed redundant robots reflects a broader passion for accessible robotics education. Collectively, his body of work has accumulated over 120 citations, marking him as a pioneering voice in the emerging field of orthopedic surgical robotics.
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- 2Feed rate control in robotic bone drilling process17 citations · 2020
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- 5Design and Control of an Educational Redundant 3D Printed Robot12 citations · 2019
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- 7Automatic bone drilling by femoral head structure detection8 citations · 2017
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