ISL was founded in 1989 to design and manufacture Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) and modular robotic systems for use in confined spaces and hazardous environments. Since then, the company has built a reputation as the expert in remote controlled robotic transport, visual inspection equipment and instrumentation tooling. Reliability, efficiency, quality, and versatility are all emphasized in the design of all equipment produced by ISL.

The company employs over 30 people at its facility in Nanaimo, British Columbia. In addition to producing and selling a complete line of standard equipment for a variety of remote robotic inspection applications, the company also offers a complete range of services from engineering conceptual design through to project completion.

To ensure and maintain the company's high standard of quality systems assembly, integration and testing are completed using in-house electronic and machine assembly staff. In addition, ISL regularly develops formal partnerships with other businesses and consultants to provide specialty engineering in accordance with design criteria. As a result, ISL is able to provide customers with innovative, high-quality equipment that is functionally reliable, easily operated, and cost-effective.

ISL has an excellent track record in providing complex, custom, mobile robotic systems to clients such as Ontario Hydro, GE Nuclear Energy, Hitachi Nuclear, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (US Department of Energy), Atomic Energy, Naval Research Lab, ERDC, and many others.