Bambu Lab is getting into 3D scanning. The company has officially teased a device called the S1, with a launch window of November 2026, according to Tom's Hardware. Glitchwire adds that Bambu has put up a product page with a sign-up form and a teaser image. Almost nothing else is official. Bambu has not published a price, accuracy or resolution figures, or even the scanning technology the S1 uses. Most of what is known beyond the teaser comes from a U.S. FCC filing and from reporting by two outlets that do not fully agree with each other.
A note on sourcing: FilamentFeed could not load Bambu Lab's S1 page or the FCC listing directly while preparing this article, so the details below come from Tom's Hardware and Glitchwire, both published October 12, 2026. Anything past the teaser and the November date should be read as reporting or informed guesswork, and we label it that way.
What Bambu Has Actually Shown
According to Glitchwire, the teaser shows a handheld device with the tagline "Easy in Hand. Pro in Every Scan." and language about "pro-level scanning precision." Glitchwire describes the image in more detail: a single front window with several lenses visible behind it, a grip with a trigger-style control, a knurled wheel on the side and a ribbed section on top. Neither outlet says what the controls do.
Glitchwire also reports that Bambu confirmed, in a Facebook comment, that the S1 has been added to the prize pool for MakerWorld's "Make for Good: Accessibility Design Contest." Winners are due to be announced December 18, 2026. If Bambu expects to have units ready to ship as prizes by then, that would fit a November launch, though it is an inference rather than a stated shipping date.
What the FCC Filing Reveals
Per Glitchwire, the filing is dated September 22, 2026, under FCC ID 2A6J8-DS001. It lists the product name, a "3D scanner" category, a 60 W power rating, and 5 GHz Wi-Fi supporting 20, 40 and 80 MHz channel widths. A label-location drawing shows a housing with a molded grip. Tom's Hardware adds that the drawing shows a flat spot on top of the handle that could hold a screen, as on SCANOLOGY's 3DeVOK MT Gen2.
Tom's Hardware notes that nothing on the label hints at a battery and suggests the S1 may need a connection to a PC. Glitchwire likewise says the 60 W figure is high enough to rule out battery-only operation in most scenarios. That is speculation, but with a 60 W rating and no battery on the label, the device may depend on a cable, either to a computer or to mains power. The Wi-Fi radio raises the opposite possibility, some degree of wireless data transfer, but the filing does not show how the two fit together.
The FCC has placed the manual and the exterior and interior photos under 180-day confidentiality, which Glitchwire puts at around March 21, 2027. Those documents usually answer questions about internals and operation. Unless Bambu publishes specifications first, they will not be public until well after launch.
The Partner Question
Bambu Lab has never sold a scanner, and both outlets point to an established scanner maker. They name different companies.
Tom's Hardware cites a framework agreement between Bambu and SCANOLOGY and notes that the S1's 60 W rating matches SCANOLOGY's 3DeVOK MT Gen2, a wired composite scanner using blue and infrared lasers, released in 2026 at $8,299. The input rating does not confirm shared technology, the publication says, and it argues a shared platform is unlikely if Bambu wants consumer-friendly pricing, since $8,299 is a very high price point.
Glitchwire instead points to SCANTECH, a Hangzhou-based maker of industrial 3D scanners listed on Shanghai's STAR Market. Citing Shanghai Securities News, it reports that the two companies signed a framework agreement in January 2026 to jointly develop consumer-grade scanners, with SCANTECH handling manufacturing and Bambu handling sales. Glitchwire says a May 2026 investor Q&A indicated the partnership runs for five years. It also notes that the FCC filing does not mention SCANTECH, so the connection is circumstantial.
FilamentFeed has not confirmed either relationship independently, and Bambu has not named a partner in anything we could read. Both reports could be partly true. A matching power rating is weak evidence of shared hardware, while a reported framework agreement is more concrete, though it does not prove the S1 came out of that agreement.
Where It Might Land on Price
Bambu has given no price. Glitchwire cites forum speculation on Bambu's community forum of $1,000 to $2,000, which it calls guesswork. For comparison, Glitchwire lists the Creality Pika at $699 with 0.03 mm claimed accuracy and the Creality Sermoon P1S at $2,299 with up to 0.02 mm accuracy. Tom's Hardware names the scanners currently serving this niche as Creality's CR-Scan line, Revopoint's Pop series, mini and MIRACO models, and SHINING3D's Einstar.
That is a crowded field. Bambu will need to beat it on usability, price or integration rather than on novelty.
What It Means for Makers
Bambu's advantage in printers has been integration more than raw specs: hardware, slicer, firmware and the MakerWorld model library are designed to work together. A scanner from the same company raises an obvious question. Will scans go straight into Bambu Studio, ready for cleanup and printing? Glitchwire lists Bambu Studio and MakerWorld integration among the details Bambu has not published, along with accuracy, resolution, scanning technology and color capture. Any of those could decide whether the S1 is worth buying.
If you are considering a scanner for reverse engineering replacement parts, fitting accessories to existing objects or digitizing sculpts, nothing announced so far is a reason to wait or to buy. The specs that matter for those jobs, including accuracy, minimum feature size, handling of dark or shiny surfaces and whether you need markers, are all unknown. So is the practical setup: if the S1 really needs a PC tether and mains power, it will be less portable than a handheld design suggests.
Bottom Line
The S1 is real enough to have an FCC grant, a product page and a place in a contest prize pool, and Bambu's teaser says it will arrive in November 2026. Beyond that, the public record is a teaser image, a 60 W power rating, a Wi-Fi radio and two conflicting reports about who helped build it. Expect the important answers at launch, not before.
