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'''RoboNet'''-1.0 was a prototype global network of UK-built 2-metre [[robotic telescopestelescope]]<nowiki/>s, 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 ten 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 scientific 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]].