The mission of Maelzel, Inc., is to develop a technology (a machine) that demonstrates apparent artificial intelligence. That mission will be realized when an embedded and embodied hardware and software technology, situated in a constrained environment, emerges demonstrating cybernetic, autonomous, and adaptive agency.
Maelzel first did business in 1986 in the state of Arizona. In 2004, Maelzel submitted articles of incorporation and application to the state of Virginia and the Internal Revenue Service of the United States as a not for profit organization exclusively for the purpose of scientific research according to the rules of the Internal Revenue Code Section 501 (c)(3) in the general area of adaptive and embedded artificial intelligence. Maelzel has since been granted non-profit status for these expressed purposes and has relocated to McLean, Virginia.