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Can it be possible for the robot to autonomously navigate through an unknown map and avoid obstacles?

yes.

This procedure is typically called autonomous mapping or exploration. There are quite a few packages that provide this sort of functionality.

See #q187944, #q240011, #q270227 and quite a few other previous questions about this.

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