On June 17, Midjourney, the AI art company, announced its first hardware project: a full-body ultrasound scanner called Midjourney Medical, revealed by CEO David Holz at an event in San Francisco. The device uses 358,000 ultrasonic elements arranged in a ring, with a person lying on a platform that lowers into a shallow pool of water, firing ultrasound waves from every angle simultaneously to reconstruct 3D images of muscle, fat, bone, and organs. It works ten times faster than MRI, taking 60 seconds compared to an MRI scan’s 30 minutes, and costs roughly one-tenth the price, though the exact cost has not been disclosed. The system relies on computational power and Midjourney’s AI expertise to process terabytes of data per second in real time. The company plans to open a Midjourney Spa in San Francisco by the end of 2027, with a goal of 50,000 scanners deployed worldwide and one billion scans per month by the end of the decade. Midjourney is discussing licensing the technology to hospitals and imaging centers, and the scanner launches in limited testing this year.