Rise of the Machines: Chinese 3D printers turn on at night and start printing by themselves

Some devices self-destructed in this way.

The 3D Printer Night Rebellion took place from 15 to 16 August. The devices of the Chinese company Bambu spontaneously turned on and began to print what they were not asked for. Some of them repeated the previous task, others - something incomprehensible over the already finished products of sadness. A number of machines have broken down, damaging their extruders with too much printed material. The damage has not yet been calculated, but the company has already acknowledged the problem and apologized to the owners of the machines.
Spontaneous operation of one of the printers caught on video

The exact cause of the problem is still unknown, the company continues to investigate, but the most likely version is a failure in the Bambu cloud storage, where the owners stored tasks for their devices. Several outages occurred on the company's servers, the systems crashed and, without receiving confirmation of successfully completed jobs, they sent a command to the printers to start working.

The situation, according to experts, is quite serious. Bambu 3D printers work remotely (there is also a function to work offline, but only a few use it), and at the time of printing they get quite hot, which could provoke fires.

The manufacturer of 3D printers said that it takes full responsibility and promised to make changes to the system so that this does not happen again. However, they did not promise free repair or replacement of failed components. The company asked each owner whose property was damaged to contact Bambu to resolve the issue with compensation and repairs on an individual basis.