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Midjourney Enters Healthcare With a Scanner Unlike Anything Before
Midjourney Medical Scanner — News Article
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BreakingJune 18, 2026·5 min read
The AI image company pivots into healthcare with the Midjourney Scanner —
a water-immersion ultrasound device that promises to map your entire body
faster and cheaper than an MRI, without a single X-ray.
Midjourney Medical
San Francisco
Sources: Bloomberg · Engadget · AuntMinnie
60s
Full-body scan time
500K
Ultrasonic sensors
40
Butterfly chip modules
50K
Scanners by 2031
The Midjourney Scanner
"Ultrasonic CT" — a full-body tomographic imaging machine powered by sound waves and water.
No radiation. No magnetic fields. First unit opens in a San Francisco spa by 2027.
Midjourney — the company famous for generating AI artwork from text prompts — has made
a startling leap into medical hardware. On June 17, 2026, CEO David Holz unveiled the
Midjourney Scanner at a live event in San Francisco, calling it
"the first new whole-body imaging method in decades." The device is developed under
a new division, Midjourney Medical.
How It Works
The scanner works on a remarkably elegant principle. A patient steps onto a platform
and is slowly lowered into a shallow pool of water surrounded by a ring of ultrasonic
sensors. Those sensors — roughly 500,000 of them — fire sound waves
through the body from every angle simultaneously, collecting terabytes of data per second.
AI algorithms then reconstruct that data into a detailed 3D image of the body's interior,
comparable in quality to an MRI, but completed in under 60 seconds rather than the
60–90 minutes a traditional MRI typically requires.
"Like being surrounded by half a million tiny dolphins using echolocation — the result
is a 3D map of your body down to a fraction of a millimeter."
— Midjourney, product announcement
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Butterfly Network Chips
Each unit uses 40 Butterfly Ultrasound-on-Chip™ modules, each packing ~500,000 sensors and over 2 petaflops of processing power.
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Water Immersion Design
Water acts as the acoustic medium, letting sound waves travel cleanly through the body from every angle without gel or contact probes.
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AI Reconstruction
Raw ultrasound data is processed in real time into 3D anatomical maps — each slice crossfades between raw reconstruction and AI segmentation.
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No Radiation, No Magnets
Unlike CT or MRI, the scanner uses only sound waves — making it safe for people with metal implants and removing radiation exposure entirely.
Roadmap
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Nov 2025
Midjourney signed an exclusive licensing deal with Butterfly Network — up to $74 million over five years — securing the chip technology for the scanner.
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June 17–18, 2026
Midjourney Medical publicly announced, and the Midjourney Scanner prototype was unveiled at a live San Francisco event.
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2027
First scanner location planned — integrated into the Midjourney Spa, a 25,000 sq ft wellness space in San Francisco with saunas, hot tubs, cold plunges, and a gym.
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2028
Second-generation scanner targeted, using fully custom silicon for higher resolution and faster throughput.
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2031
Long-term goal: deploy more than 50,000 scanners worldwide with capacity for 1 billion scans per month.
What to Know
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No FDA clearance yet. The Midjourney Scanner is a first-generation prototype
and has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Midjourney says it will
submit test results to the FDA as it develops diagnostic capabilities, and plans to start with
body composition mapping — not medical diagnosis — as its initial use case.
Independent verification of performance claims has not yet been published.
The hardware lead on the project is Ahmad Abbas — who joined Midjourney in late 2023 after
working on the Apple Vision Pro — underscoring the company's ambition to hire serious
hardware talent for what it describes as one of eight active projects spanning four hardware
and four software initiatives.
Butterfly Network CEO Joseph DeVivo called the collaboration "a potentially meaningful
commercial opportunity," while future generations of the scanner are expected to incorporate
substantially more imaging modules as the platform evolves.
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