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RoboNet-1.0 was a prototype global network of UK-built 2m robotic telescopes, the largest of their kind in the world, comprising the [[Liverpool Telescope]] on La Palma (Canary Islands), the [[Faulkes Telescope North]] on Maui (Hawaii), and the [[Faulkes Telescope South]] in Australia, managed by a consortium of 10 UK universities under the lead of [[Liverpool John Moores University]]. For the technological aims of integrating a global network to act

effectively as a single instrument, and maximizing the scientifcscientific return by applying the newest developments in [[e-Science]], RoboNet adopted the intelligent-agent architecture devised and maintained by the [[eSTAR]] project.

With the flexible scheduling and short response time of robotic telescopes being ideal for [[time-___domain astronomy]], RoboNet-1.0 had two major science goals that critically depend on these requirements: the determination of origin and nature of [[gamma-ray bursts]], and the detection of cool [[extra-solar planets]] by means of [[gravitational microlensing]].

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== Research Highlights ==

RoboNet data so far contributed to the detection of five [[extra-solar planets]] (in the order of announcement of their discovery)

* [[OGLE-2005-BLG-071L|OGLE-2005-BLG-071Lb]]b

* [[OGLE-2005-BLG-390Lb]] (the most Earth-like planet at the time of its discovery)

* [[OGLE-2005-BLG-169L|OGLE-2005-BLG-169Lb]]b

* [[OGLE-2006-BLG-109L|OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lb]]b and [[OGLE-2006-BLG-109L|OGLE-2006-BLG-109Lc]]c (a pair similar to Jupiter and Saturn in the Solar system)

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