Landor Architecture, Inc.
"The Most Advanced Layout Robot For Future Construction"
Korean developer of Archibot, a mobile robot that scans a site against a reference map and marks CAD layout lines full-scale on construction floors.
Landor Architecture, Inc. is a South Korean construction-robotics company that develops Archibot, a mobile robot that prints building layout from digital drawings directly onto construction work surfaces. The company's website, landorarchitecture.com, presents Archibot as 'the most advanced layout robot for future construction'. Patent analytics provider PatSnap lists the company as founded in 2014 in South Korea and describes it as a robotics and construction engineering firm developing a robot system for automated construction.
Origins. Archibot was conceived by Han Seok Nam, a South Korean architectural designer, and was first publicised in April 2014 by ArchDaily, Core77 and Building Design + Construction as a concept for a mobile printer that reads uploaded CAD files and prints plans at full scale on the floor, so that workers can see where walls, doors and other elements go without measuring and marking by hand, and can spot errors by comparing the built work with the printed plan. At that time Nam had a granted patent on the idea and was developing a prototype with industry and academic experts; he named civil engineering and shipbuilding as possible further uses.
Technology. Landor Architecture holds a family of United States patents on a 'movable marking system' with priority from May 2017, invented by Han Seok Nam and Dongjun Lee: US 10,365,101 (2019), US 10,794,697 (2020), US 11,441,900 (2022), US 11,906,305 (2024) and US 12,487,085 (December 2025). The patents describe a marking robot that draws or marks layout on a working surface from marking data, and a sensing unit that scans the surrounding walls and pillars. A scan-condition module plans the robot's path, picks scan positions from reference map data and sets the sensor scan angle at each position, so that the robot can determine and correct its own location without depending on external surveying for every move. A second family, 'autonomous working system' (US 11,820,001, granted November 2023, priority April 2018, with further applications published in 2024 and 2025), covers a master robot that localises itself against a reference map and one or more slave robots that position themselves relative to the master by measured distance and angle or by fixed transceivers; the master can display task markings that the slave robots read and carry out. A third family, 'location measuring system' (US 11,846,718 in 2023 and US 12,270,928 in 2025), was co-invented by Han Seok Nam and James Patten. Justia lists 11 US patents and published applications assigned to the company, and PatSnap counts 23 patents in total.
Position in the market. Layout marking is one of the most active areas of construction robotics, with competing systems from Dusty Robotics, HP SitePrint, CivRobotics, Kajima and Korean developers. Landor Architecture's distinguishing approach, as described in its patents, is self-localisation by scanning the existing structure against a reference map and the coordination of several robots from one master unit.
Company details such as headquarters address, headcount, customers, pricing and funding were not published in the sources reviewed.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Archibot layout marking robot
Mobile robot that reads CAD/drawing data, localises by scanning walls and pillars against a reference map, and marks layout lines full-scale on site floors.
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Korea, Republic of (South)
Company Facts
Founded
2014
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Manufacturer
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Primary Region
Asia-Pacific
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