Optimus Popularis keyboards in the studio’s warehouse in New Jersey, USA.

Taipei (Taiwan): manual assembly of Optimus Popularis keyboards. Pictured: key mechanism is being installed into the metal frame of the keyboard.

Taipei (Taiwan): refinement of the Optimus Popularis keyboard assembly process.

Taipei: a horizontal boring mill with digital controls is cutting an Optimus Popularis keyboard frame out of an aluminum plate. The mills are running around the clock and take three hours per frame.

Taipei: Optimus Popularis keyboard going through a mechanical test. Pictured: special equipment determining how many keystrokes Popularis keys can withstand.

Las Vegas, Consumer Electronics Show 2013: the trade fair visitors studying Optimus Popularis keyboard at the studio’s booth. The show is open January 8 thru 11, our booth #35603 sits on the upper level of the South Hall.

Engineer Maxim Pavlukhin working on an Optimus Popularis keyboard prototype.

Programmer Grigory Odegov working on software for Optimus Popularis keyboard

Taipei (Taiwan): a worker soldering components of another typing plate version for Optimus Popularis keyboard prototype.

Taipei (Taiwan): an engineer testing sensitivity of a membrane matrix prototype for Optimus Popularis keyboard.

Las Vegas: NAB Show 2012 visitors studying Optimus Maximus, Optimus Popularis, and Optimus mini six at the studio’s booth.

Art director Timur Burbyev (left) introducing Rossia-2 TV channel crew to development progress of the studio’s Optimus keyboards family.

The industrial design department running Optimus Popularis prototype tests.

Art director Timur Burbayev demonstrates a full-size mock-up of Optimus Popularis keyboard made of modeling polystyrene. Next to it for comparison: a production Optimus Maximus keyboard and one of its first full-size mock-ups.