2. Lasers and robots

2.1 Requirements

As we saw earlier, the use of lasers in surgery is becoming increasingly recurrent in various medical and surgical disciplines (figure 9 ). The same applies to the introduction of robots and artificial intelligence into the operating theatre. Indeed, surgical robotics enable clinicians to perform many types of intervention (open, minimally or non-invasive, etc.) that can be complex with greater precision, flexibility and control than traditional techniques