In general useage, a robotic telescope is a system which can provide integrated computer control of a telescope mount and CCD camera. As of July 2001, Optical Guidance Systems is one of the few companies to list off-the-shelf robotic telescope systems available for purchase. Such systems contue to be rather expensive, but this is likely to change in the near future since there is clearly a small, but well defined, niche market for this technology. In general, such systems must currently be custom built, or may be built by combining and integrating appropriate components. Software Bisque offers such a selection of components. The telescope control technology currently seems to be somewhat more mature than the camera control technology.