The Hybrid Group is announcing that Gobot with version number 0.8.2 is already available to download.

What is Gobot ?

Gobot is A powerful Go framework for robotics and physical computing, a collection of libraries, hardware drivers and programmatic APIs . Gobot allows developers to write applications that control physical hardware via Google's Go language.Gobot supports common I/O drivers and a few major hardware platforms as well.This enables programmers to start writing their code and run it without any problems on various devices and hardware. It basically makes commanding robots incredibly simple, without having to write complex machine-level code, but only via Go.Since robotics and physical computing may be a complicated task on its own, make sure to thoroughly read the Gobot documentation before starting work on your future Go-powered robots.The Hybrid Group also provides a similar robotics framework for:Ruby (Artoo)JavaScript (Cylon.js) This is changelog for Gobot version 0.8.2 :

• Refactor core, gpio, and i2c interfaces
• Correctly pass errors throughout packages and remove all panics
• Numerous bug fixes and performance improvements
• Added optional io.ReadWriteCloser parameter to FirmataAdaptor

You can read the complete changelog and also download this latest version on their homepage: gobot.io