amw-mblaszczyk/RobotMOOS

RobotMOOS is a specialized, likely academic or personal implementation based on the MOOS-IvP framework, which is the de facto standard for autonomous marine research (developed at MIT/Oxford). With only 4 stars and zero activity for over four years (1488 days), it represents a stagnant prototype rather than a living project. Its defensibility is near zero as it is a derivative of a much larger ecosystem; any competitive entity would build directly on the upstream MOOS-IvP or transition to modern ROS2-based maritime frameworks (like BlueROV2-supported stacks or ArduSub). Frontier labs have zero interest in this niche, legacy C++ domain. The primary risk is not from platforms, but from simple obsolescence and the existence of better-documented, actively maintained maritime swarm projects like those from the National Oceanography Centre or Heriot-Watt University.