JatinPatil2003/AutoNav

AutoNav is a representative example of a standard undergraduate or hobbyist robotics project. It utilizes the legacy ROS 1 Navigation Stack (move_base) and standard SLAM algorithms. With 45 stars and 12 forks over nearly three years, it lacks the velocity and unique IP to be considered a defensible project. The 'moat' is non-existent as it relies entirely on off-the-shelf open-source components without significant modification or unique sensor fusion logic. Professionally, this space has moved toward ROS 2 (Nav2), which offers significantly better stability and multi-robot support. While frontier labs like OpenAI or Google are developing Foundation Models for robotics (VLA models like RT-2), they are unlikely to 'compete' with this specific repo because it is a basic implementation of 10-year-old robotics paradigms. The displacement risk is high not because of frontier labs, but because of more modern open-source frameworks like Nav2 and commercial-grade stacks like those from NVIDIA (Isaac) or specialized AMR startups.