  The Liverpool Telescope, owned and operated by Liverpool John Moores
University and situated at Roque de los Muchachos, La Palma, is the first 2-m,
fully instrumented robotic telescope. We plan to use the LT in conjunction with
Gamma Ray Observatories (HETE-2, INTEGRAL, Swift) to study GRB physics. A
special over-ride mode will enable observations commencing less than a minute
after the GRB alert, including optical and near infrared imaging and
spectroscopy. These observations, together with systematic monitoring of the
burst through the afterglow, will help to unravel the nature of prompt optical
flashes, short bursts, optically dark bursts, redshift distribution, GRB -
supernova connection and other questions related to the GRB phenomenon. In
particular, the combination of aperture, instrumentation and rapid automated
response makes the Liverpool Telescope excellently suited to the investigation
of optically dark bursts and currently optically unstudied short bursts.
