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Well that's interesting. Dwarf Lab have started dropping snippets of information about their next smart telescope on their Facebook page, and they are going big!
The Draco's 90 mm aperture diameter beats everything but the Celestron Origin, and they've added guiding and internal field de-rotation to enable exposure times up to 300 seconds, plus image sensor cooling that cunningly uses the waste heat to prevent lens fogging. Very ambitious, but if they can make all this work for a semi-reasonable price it's going to make Seestar's S50 Pro look like a rather small step forwards in comparison.
Of course this beast is bound to end up rather less portable than a 30 mm or 50 mm aperture smart telescope, but possibly not too chunky. Looks like the main telescope is some sort of catadioptric design which will help keep the weight and size down a bit.