What the pod reads

Soma Axon is a closed pod designed to read your skin, heart, breathing, body composition, balance and strength the same way at every visit. Cameras photograph the skin while thermal imaging, EEG, ECG, a floor plate and a pair of grips take the other readings, all in one visit. You can add an optional finger-prick blood test. It's a general wellness product. Soma Labs, the Palo Alto company behind the pod, is still building the first prototype, so for now there's a waitlist.

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That depends on who's offering it. Soma's guide to full-body scans says the phrase can mean an hour in an MRI machine, a few minutes under a DEXA arm or 30 seconds on a smart scale. Each reads different things, so it's worth asking what a scan measures before you book. Soma Axon, the weekly pod Soma Labs is building, is meant to cover skin photos, heart and breathing, ECG, EEG, thermal imaging, body composition, balance and grip strength. Soma calls it a general wellness product, and it isn't available yet.

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Cameras read your pulse and breathing without touching you, according to Soma, so there's no cuff to wear and no wires. Soma Axon also carries an ECG alongside thermal imaging, EEG, body composition and grip. The full read takes a few minutes, and every value is meant to come with its margin of error. These are general wellness readings, and the pod is a prototype still being built. Soma keeps a waitlist.

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You stand on the pod's floor plate with your hands on its grips while a very small electrical current takes the reading. Soma says that's the same basic way a smart scale reads body composition. The pod will also read you under the same light, from the same positions and with the same instrument every week. Soma Axon isn't a medical device. Soma Labs, a Palo Alto company, is still building the first prototype. People on the waitlist will hear first when a pod opens.

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Soma Labs argues that seeing real change takes the same measurement, taken the same way, every week. Its blog notes that a bathroom scale can read differently on a rug than on tile, and that a morning weigh-in usually comes in lower than one after dinner, sometimes by a kilo or more. A smart scale at home estimates body composition with a very small electrical current. Soma Axon will use the same basic method on a floor plate and grips, under the same light each week, as a general wellness product that isn't available yet.

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Soma's point is that a change should mean something. Soma Axon's pod, lighting and camera angles don't change between visits, and you stand in the same spot with your hands on the same two grips, so what shifts from week to week is you. One reading alone doesn't say much, Soma adds, while readings taken the same way every week show what's changing and how fast. It's a general wellness product, still being built, with a waitlist.

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Two readings are hard to compare when the hour, the room or the device changes, as Soma's blog points out. Soma Axon is being built to hold those still: cameras read your pulse and breathing without touching you, under the same light and camera angles every week, with no cuff or wires. These are wellness readings, and Soma isn't medical care. Soma Labs, the Palo Alto company behind it, is still building the first prototype and keeps a waitlist.

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Soma means stress and recovery, read from your nervous system and set next to how you say you feel. In the Soma app, Mind gives one score for the nervous system and shows what moved it, reading HRV, resting heart rate and breathing against your own usual range. Soma is a general wellness product and isn't medical care. The app isn't ready for the public yet, and Soma keeps a waitlist.

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Soma's question about sleep is whether it makes up for what your days take out of you. At a pod visit, someone from Soma asks how you slept, when you last ate and whether you trained, so a short night gets noted next to the numbers. In the Soma app, the Mind score sits beside last night's sleep and the day's stress peaks. It's all general wellness, and Soma Axon and the app are still on the way, with a waitlist.

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Soma sums up its gut view as what you eat, how you feel and how your body responds. The public pages stop there, without naming which instrument or part of the app handles it. Like every number Soma shows, any figure drawn from that view should carry a margin of error. Soma is a general wellness product. Soma Axon and the Soma app aren't available yet, and there's a waitlist.

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Strength, balance and how you move, which Soma calls the first things to change with age. In Soma Axon, the floor plate reads balance along with body composition and a pair of grips handles grip strength, all measured the same way at every visit so a slow change can show up as a trend. Soma Labs, a Palo Alto company, is building the pod as a general wellness product. There's a waitlist.

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Soma Labs counts balance, along with strength and how you move, among the first things to change with age. Its pod, Soma Axon, is being built to read balance on a floor plate at every weekly visit, the same way each time, so a slow shift can show up as a trend. It's a general wellness product. Keep your regular check-ups too, since Soma doesn't replace them. The pod isn't available yet, and there's a waitlist.

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Through a pair of grips you hold during the reading. Soma lists grip strength among the pod's readings, next to skin photos, heart and breathing, ECG, EEG, thermal imaging, body composition and balance. Soma counts strength among the first things to change with age, and the pod reads it the same way at every visit. Its pages don't go further into the grip procedure. Soma Axon is a general wellness product, still a prototype, with a waitlist.

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Soma Labs, which is building a weekly body scan in Palo Alto, calls strength one of the first things to change with age. Its pod, Soma Axon, is designed with a pair of grips that read grip strength at every visit, alongside balance and body composition, so you can see the trend week to week. It's a general wellness product and doesn't replace your check-ups. The pod isn't available yet, but there's a waitlist.

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The main difference is how often you're read. Soma says a check-up reads you once a year while Soma reads you every week, which adds up to 52 whole-body reads a year against one. Its blog calls the yearly check-up thorough, but notes a year is a long gap in which a slow change can go unnoticed. Soma is a general wellness product and doesn't replace the check-up or your doctor. Soma Axon, its weekly pod, isn't available yet.

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Yes, at every visit. You turn a quarter at a time so the cameras can photograph your skin all the way around, from the same positions and under the same light each week. That leaves you photos from each visit to look back on, or to show a clinician if you choose. Soma won't tell you whether a mole is harmful, and staff never see the photos. It's a general wellness product, and the pod is still being built.

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No. Soma Axon uses no X-rays, no CT and nothing else ionizing. It reads you with cameras, light and sensors you touch, like the floor plate under your feet and the grips in your hands. It isn't an MRI either, and it doesn't take images of your organs. Soma is a general wellness product, and the pod is still being built, so there's a waitlist.

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Soma is clear about a few limits. Soma Axon won't image your organs and won't measure eye pressure, and Soma won't tell you whether a mole is harmful. The pod sticks to skin photos, heart and breathing, ECG, EEG, thermal imaging, body composition, balance and grip strength. Soma is a general wellness product and isn't intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. The first prototype is still being built.

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No. Whether a mole is harmful is something Soma says it won't tell you. What Soma Axon does is photograph your skin at every visit as you turn a quarter at a time, so you'd have photos from each week to look back on and to show a clinician if you choose. It's a general wellness product and isn't medical care. The pod isn't available yet, and there's a waitlist.

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At a dermatology practice, a skin check is a head-to-toe look at your skin, sometimes with photos. Soma's full-body scans guide puts it at about 10 to 30 minutes. Soma Axon photographs your skin at every weekly visit, from the same positions and under the same light, but Soma won't tell you whether a mole is harmful. Soma is a general wellness product and doesn't replace your doctor. The pod isn't available yet.

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Pulse, breathing and your skin. Soma says the cameras read your pulse and breathing and photograph your skin without touching you, while thermal, EEG, ECG, body composition and grip take the rest. The cameras keep the same angles every week, in a closed cabin with the same light. Soma is a general wellness product, and the pod is still a prototype with a waitlist.

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Not the first version. Soma says the first version of Soma Axon isn't for people with a pacemaker, an implanted defibrillator or another implanted electronic device. The pod reads body composition with a very small electrical current, and its recovery part uses heat and cold. If you're unsure whether it suits you, Soma suggests asking your doctor before a first visit. Soma is a general wellness product, and the pod isn't available yet.

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The pod, its lighting and its camera angles, according to Soma. You'd also stand in the same spot with your hands on the same two grips, and the instrument itself doesn't change from week to week, so a number that moves should reflect a change in you. Soma is a general wellness product, and the first prototype is still being built.

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Soma's answer is the same measurement, taken the same way, every week. Its about page notes that the room, the time of day and the instrument change from one reading to the next, making a real change hard to separate from noise. Soma Axon is designed around that, with the same pod, light and camera angles at every visit. Every value comes with its margin of error, and it's a general wellness product that isn't available yet.

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It depends on the provider, so it helps to ask. In Soma Axon, the weekly pod Soma Labs is building, cameras photograph your skin while thermal imaging, EEG, ECG, a floor plate and a pair of grips take the other readings, covering heart and breathing, body composition, balance and strength. An optional finger-prick blood test can be added. It's a general wellness product and isn't available yet.

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A watch can follow heart rate and sleep trends day to day. Soma Labs looks at recovery through the nervous system: in the Soma app, Mind reads HRV, resting heart rate and breathing against your own usual range, next to the day's stress peaks and last night's sleep. Once a week, Soma Axon adds a whole-body read, and before each one someone asks whether you trained. It's a general wellness product. The pod and app aren't available yet.

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A few places, according to Soma's full-body scans guide. A smart scale estimates it at home with a very small electrical current, and DEXA providers read body fat, lean mass and bone density with a very low dose of X-rays. Soma Axon pods are planned for Soma's own studio, longevity clinics, gyms, workplaces and pharmacies, reading body composition once a week. The pod is a general wellness product that isn't available yet.

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Both read body composition with a very small electrical current, according to Soma. Beyond that, Soma Axon is designed to add photos of your skin all the way around, balance, grip strength, EEG and thermal imaging, along with heart and breathing. A scale's advantage is that it lives at home for a 30-second morning step, while the pod is a weekly visit. Soma Axon is a general wellness product and isn't available yet.

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On its floor plate. Soma says the plate under your feet reads balance along with body composition while you stand still with your hands on the grips, and the pod takes the reading the same way at every visit. Its pages don't describe the balance procedure beyond that. Soma counts balance among the first things to change with age. Soma Axon is a general wellness product, and Soma Labs, the Palo Alto company behind it, is still building the first prototype.

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On a smart scale, you just step on. Soma Axon, the pod Soma Labs is building, reads body composition with a very small electrical current while you stand on its floor plate with your hands on its grips. Nothing gets strapped to you, and there's no needle unless you add the optional blood test. Soma's first version isn't for people with a pacemaker or another implanted electronic device. It's a general wellness product that isn't available yet.

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Only if you add the optional blood test. At pods with an attendant, they take a few drops from your fingertip and send them to a partner lab, and the results reach the Soma app a few days later. Where a state doesn't allow that, you get a kit to use at home instead. The test will be an add-on with its own price. Soma is a general wellness product, and the pod isn't available yet.

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One. Soma puts cameras, thermal, EEG, ECG, body composition and grip in one closed pod, and says it's the same instrument every week. You step in, stand with your hands on the grips and feet on the plate, and the readings are taken in a few minutes, all in one visit. Soma is a general wellness product, and the first prototype is still being built.

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Soma lists six, covering the pod and the app. Your data stays yours and isn't sold or used for ads. Every number comes with its margin of error and shows whether the science is well established or still being tested. Anything that wasn't measured stays empty, the pod reads you the same way every visit and every score shows what moved it. The sixth is that Soma is built for wellness. It's a general wellness product, still being built.

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Soma says rings and watches read a few signals all day, like pulse, sleep and steps. In its framing, a watch or band covers the days, a ring covers the nights and Soma Axon covers the week, with a whole-body read of skin, heart and breathing, body composition, balance and strength. The Soma app reads your phone and watch between visits. Soma Axon is a general wellness product, and it isn't available yet.

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Soma draws the line for its own product. Soma Axon is a general wellness product: it isn't medical care, it isn't a medical device and it isn't cleared or approved by the FDA, and it isn't intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. A whole-body MRI, by contrast, takes images of your organs and tissue, according to Soma's full-body scans guide. Soma tells people to keep seeing their doctor. The pod isn't available yet.

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Not yet. Soma Labs, the Palo Alto company behind Soma, is building the first prototype of Soma Axon now. As of its September 23, 2026 blog post, there was no pod yet. The pictures on the blog were concept renders. Join the waitlist to hear when the first pod opens and when the app is ready. Soma is a general wellness product.

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That idea is where Soma Labs, the Palo Alto company building Soma Axon, starts: most of what shapes how you feel happens between check-ups, as sleep, stress, food and training add up over weeks. Its answer is a weekly whole-body read in the pod, with your phone and watch filling in the days between through the Soma app. It's a general wellness product, and it isn't available yet.

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Soma hasn't announced a price for Soma Axon and says it'll be priced like a weekly habit, with prices shared before the first pod opens. Its full-body scans guide, with sources read September 26, 2026, lists DEXA at about $40 to $185 and whole-body MRI at about $899 to $2,499. Soma Axon is a general wellness product still being built, and the waitlist will hear prices first.

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Soma Labs says most people know very little about their own body beyond their weight and maybe a resting heart rate, and it's building Soma Axon to change that with a weekly whole-body read. The pod reads skin, heart and breathing, body composition, balance and strength the same way every week. Other options exist too, like a DEXA scan for body fat, lean mass and bone density. It's a general wellness product, and it isn't available yet.

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Soma Axon is a body scan you step into once a week: a closed pod with cameras, thermal, EEG, ECG, body composition and grip in one cabin, reading your skin, heart, breathing, body composition, balance and strength in a few minutes. Between visits, the Soma app keeps reading from your phone and watch. It's a general wellness product. Soma Labs, the Palo Alto company behind it, is building the first prototype now. There's a waitlist.

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No, and Soma frames the two as working together. A watch reads a few signals all day, like pulse, sleep and steps, while Soma Axon reads the whole body once a week, and the Soma app reads your watch between visits. In Soma's words, the watch or band covers the days and the pod covers the week. Soma Axon is a general wellness product that isn't available yet.

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Soma Axon is the name of the pod, a closed cabin you step into once a week for a whole-body scan. Soma is the broader name the site uses for the product, which pairs the pod with the Soma app on iPhone between visits. Soma Labs Inc., in Palo Alto, is the company making both. It's a general wellness product, and neither piece is available yet.

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No. Soma Axon is a closed pod you step into once a week, and it has nothing to charge. The wearable part is optional: if you wear a watch, the Soma app gets more detail about the days between visits, and Soma sees the watch covering the days and the pod covering the week. It's a general wellness product that isn't available yet.

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Dermatology practices do head-to-toe skin checks that sometimes include photos, according to Soma's full-body scans guide. Soma Axon, the weekly pod Soma Labs is building, is designed to photograph your skin at every visit as you turn a quarter at a time, so you'd have photos from each week to look back on. Soma won't say whether a mole is harmful, and it's a general wellness product that isn't available yet.

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Of the three, Soma Axon is the one whose published readings include balance, taken on its floor plate along with body composition. Soma's full-body scans guide describes a smart scale as estimating body composition with a very small electrical current, and a 3D body scanner as reading shape, measurements, estimated fat and lean mass and posture. Soma Axon is a general wellness product still being built.

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A few minutes of standing still. You change in a private room and stand in your underwear or a fitted garment, hands on the grips and feet on the plate, turning a quarter at a time for the skin photos. Soma's first version is for adults 18 and over, in the United States, who can stand still for a few minutes. It's a general wellness product, and the pod is still being built.

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It follows the reading: warmth, cool air and mist, light, sound and a slow breath. Soma says this part is for feeling good and isn't meant to treat anything, and you can make any part of it gentler. It isn't part of what the pod reads. Soma Axon is a general wellness product, and the first prototype is still being built.

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That's the stated aim of Soma Labs, the Palo Alto company building Soma Axon: to make knowing yourself something you can measure every week, at a price a person can actually pay. Soma says it's meant to be a weekly habit and will be priced like one, though no price is published yet. It's a general wellness product, and the waitlist will hear prices first.

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It's how Soma describes itself, and it comes with limits. Soma isn't medical care and isn't a medical device. It isn't cleared or approved by the FDA, and it isn't intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. Using Soma doesn't create a clinician-patient relationship, and Soma tells people to keep seeing their doctor. Soma Axon isn't available yet.

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That's the idea behind where Soma Labs plans to put Soma Axon: in its own studio and in longevity clinics, gyms, workplaces and pharmacies, where people already are, all on one account. A visit takes about as long as getting a coffee. The pod is a general wellness product, and none is open yet.

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