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The ROTSE project is a collaboration of astrophysicists from the [[University of Michigan]], [[Los Alamos National Laboratory]], [[Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory]], the [[University of New South Wales]] (Australia) and the [[Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics]] (Germany).<ref>{{cite web|title=Project Information|url=http://www.rotse.net/information/|accessdate=11 September 2010}}</ref>

The original ROTSE-I had 4 telephoto lenses of 11 &nbsp;cm aperture, covering a 16x16 degree field of view. This detected the first afterglow of a GRB while the burst was still ongoing, but this was the only burst detected by ROTSE or the very similar [[Livermore Optical Transient Imaging System]]. Therefore, ROTSE-II was designed, also featuring a large field of view, but it was never built, since new satellites such as [[HETE-2]] and SWIFT could provide smaller error boxes, making a huge field of view unnecessary. This led to the design of ROTSE-III, a more or less conventional telescope designed for fast slewing and operation at multiple locations around the world.<ref>{{cite arxivarXiv |title=The ROTSE-III robotic telescope system

|author=Akerlof, C.W. and Ashley, MCB and Casperson, DE and Epps, HW and Kehoe, RL and Marshall, SL and McGowan, KE and McKay, TA and Phillips, MA and Rykoff, E.S. and others

|eprint=astro-ph/0210238