Formerly doing business as BluHaptics - spun out of the Applied Physics Laboratory,University of Washington - and then renamed Olis Robotics, the firm was initially structured around developing robot control systems with a primary focus on subsea operations for Navy unexploded ordnance disposal. With technology opportunities in other federal agencies and the private sector, focus shifted to the larger opportunities of subsea. Remotely Operating Vehicles (ROV) . With acquisition in 2018 of the machine learning company White Marsh Forests, the firm was rebranded as Olis Robotoics