Midjourney released a nearly 20‑minute behind‑the‑scenes video that tours its dunk‑tank ultrasound scanner and the team building it.
The video, filmed by Marcin Plaza, a tech YouTuber who is also an engineer at the company, shows more hardware but largely sidesteps the physics and imaging questions critics raised after the project was first announced.
Plaza bluntly describes the device as scores of ultrasound probes “hacked apart and slapped on a glorified hot tub with an elevator in it.”
Midjourney frames the scanner as a cheap, radiation‑free imaging system it hopes to deploy in spas and use to measure body composition, and the company has suggested the technology could reshape medical practice.
Experts told The Verge the company has shown little evidence it can overcome known limits of ultrasound or generate the kind of high‑resolution images it has implied at the scale and speed it is promising.
Midjourney’s head of medical, Tom Calloway, said in the video that focusing on body composition lets the company avoid pursuing diagnostic FDA clearance and “speedrun” to opening once testing is complete.
The video expands what Midjourney has made public about its hardware and team, but it stops short of resolving whether the system can meet the technical and clinical standards critics say it will need.
