Bambu Lab (Chinese: 拓竹; pinyin: Tuò zhú) is a consumer tech company that designs and manufactures desktop 3D printers.

[2] In 2023, it was revealed that Bambu Lab is partially funded by IDG Capital [3], a firm previously listed by the U.S. government as associated with Chinese military-linked entities.

In August 2023, a Bambu Cloud outage caused some printers to print uncontrollably or cease functioning altogether.

[12][13] The manufacturer announced in a blog post that future firmware would be equipped with an authorization and authentication protection mechanism.

[14] Users feared that basic functions, such as printing over the local area network (LAN), would require authorization via the Bambu Cloud and restrict the use of third-party slicers.