![Cobogò’ [Studio Formosa]](https://thegoldenglitch.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/4-1024x698.png)
We like to think that Milan-based Studio Formosa created Cobogò as a philosophical statement: art, in both its perfect and imperfect aesthetic sense, may be created not just by the grace and talent of human hands, but of robots too.
![Cobogò’ [Studio Formosa]](https://thegoldenglitch.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/1b-1024x767.png)
Through Cobogò, Studio Formosa deconstructed the purist approach to manual making to explore how digital manufacturing can still create unique pieces, without succumbing to the mass production of sameness. The project essentially employs a robotic arm that punctures the malleable clay to weave a wall of textured, perforated petals. Studio Formosa’s genius was in skilfully designing the end-effector of the robot to act as the piercing mechanism and the programming of the whole setup to create a ‘digital mould’ that produced a generative output.
![Cobogò’ [Studio Formosa]](https://thegoldenglitch.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2-1024x585.jpg)
In other words, the designers of the digital mould created rules and parameters, and the robot played within them. Rooted in generative design, therefore, Cobogò celebrates a freer approach to manufacturing, that shifts the balance from top-down intentional designs, to bottom-up consequential ones.
![Cobogò’ [Studio Formosa]](https://thegoldenglitch.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/2-1024x682.png)
Cobogò is, in its own small way, a technological soldier in the age-old aesthetic battle against repeatability. Designed as a partner to the typical craftsman who uses his hands to make something really unique, what StudioFormosa have done is lend their robotic arm to sculpture a beautiful work based on a digital mould rather than a physical one, inadvertently pushing for a new generation of digital-savvy craftspersons.
![Cobogò’ [Studio Formosa]](https://thegoldenglitch.io/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/3-1024x682.png)
The captivating end-result is a rosy intricate facade that reimagines the classic cobogò, but with non-repeating elements that together create a unified wall of flowers.
Quite the feature wall.
