**1. Introduction and Scope**

Today, laser processing is becoming more and more relevant due to its fast adaptation to the most critical technological tasks, its ability to provide processing in the most rarefied and aggressive mediums (e.g., vacuum conditions), a wide field of potential applications, and green aspects related to the absence of industrial cutting chips and dust. With the development of 3D technologies in production, laser processing has received a new round of interest associated with its abilities in selective high-precision powder melting or sintering [1–4] that are now available even for oxide ceramics without a binder for remelting [5,6]. New technologies and equipment, which improve and modify laser optic parameters [7], contribute to the better absorption of laser energy by metals or powder surface [8] and allow an increase in laser power up to a few kilowatts. This can positively influence the industrial spread of the laser in mass production and advance existing manufacturing methods.

The latest achievements in laser processing have become a relevant topic in the most authoritative scientific journals and conferences over the last half-century. Advances in laser processing have received multiple awards in the most prestigious competitions and exhibitions worldwide and at international scientific events.

This Special Issue is devoted to the most recent achievements in the field of the laser processing of metals and innovative manufacturing methods based on lasers.
