Gobot the open source robotics and Internet of Things (IoT) framework has just reached a major milestone today with the release of version 1.0. Now supporting over 24 different hardware and software platforms, the framework can also connect using Machine to Machine (M2M) communication standards such as MQTT. “We created Gobot to make IoT development easy, and at the same time provide industrial strength tools,” says Ron Evans, the creator of Gobot and ‘Ringleader’ of The Hybrid Group, the software consultancy that has sponsored the open source project. “By using the Go programming language we get powerful performance and portability that is unmatched.” Continue reading this press release here.