Midjourney, the company best known for turning text prompts into images, has announced something it has never made before: hardware. And not a phone case or a pair of glasses, but a full-body medical scanner.
At an event in San Francisco on June 17, founder David Holz unveiled “The Midjourney Scanner,” and a new division to house it, Midjourney Medical. You step into a shallow pool, a platform lowers you into the water at five centimetres a second, and a ring of sensors images your insides as you descend.
Holz claimed the result is “in many ways superior to even MRI machines”, with no radiation and none of the heavy magnets an MRI needs, at “nearly a hundred times the speed”. The company says a scan takes about 60 seconds, against the 60 to 90 minutes a full-body MRI can take.
The hardware was built with Butterfly Network, an ultrasound firm Midjourney licensed in November 2025, using 40 of its “ultrasound-on-chip” modules per machine.
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