Midjourney’s first hardware product is the Midjourney Scanner, and CEO David Holz says the full-body machine uses ultrasound to map what is inside the body. The pitch is simple and unusually ambitious: a device built for fast preventive scans, not another image generator.
For people who already know Midjourney for generating cat pictures, the shift is stark. Holz is now talking about a scanner that could be used once a year or every single day, with medical uses that could later run into FDA clearance requirements.
Holz’s 60-second scanner
The scanner uses a ring of sensors to capture vertical slices of the body, and it looks at muscle, fat, bone, and organs. Holz said the system aims for image quality comparable to MRI in many ways, which sets a high bar for a product that has only scanned about a dozen people so far.
The scanning process starts when a person steps onto a platform that drops down into water on rails through a ring of thousands of transducers. Those transducers create ultrasonic waves, and the scan records the ripples passing through the body to build detailed 3D images in about 60 seconds.
Butterfly Network partnership
Midjourney developed the scanner with Butterfly Network, and the company said the system uses 40 Butterfly Ultrasound-on-Chip imaging modules per system. That hardware count gives the project a concrete shape, but it also leaves the bigger question of real-world image quality open until more people are scanned.
Holz said he would like to use the scanner to track how his body changes in response to diet and workout changes. He also said the target experience is a spa setting, not a medical office, with gym, saunas, cold plunges, and scanning rooms that have hot tubs.
Midjourney Spa in Union Square
Holz hopes to put 10 of the scanners into a Midjourney Spa location in San Francisco’s Union Square before the end of 2027. That plan turns the product from a demo into a place-based service, which means availability will hinge on whether the spa opens on that timetable and whether the scanning workflow holds up outside a small pilot group.
Job listings for Midjourney Medical go even further, saying the company wants to build and launch the world’s first full-body ultrasound CT scanner and bring safe, fast, and high fidelity preventative scanning to billions via a magical spa experience. That is a product claim, not proof, and Holz said various medical applications would require FDA clearances while Midjourney Medical says it is working on body composition maps that do not require the same level of clearance.
