Roland Berger
Roland Berger is one of the world's leading strategy consultancies with a wide-ranging service portfolio for all relevant industries and business functions. Founded in 1967, Roland Berger is headquartered in Munich. Renowned for its expertise in transformation, innovation across all industries and performance improvement, the consultancy has set itself the goal of embedding sustainability in all its projects. Roland Berger generated revenues of around 1 billion euros in 2024.
Labor for 2 dollars per hour: Humanoid robots as the next trillion-dollar-industry
Roland Berger - Humanoid robots are on the verge of moving from the prototype phase to industrial-scale rollout. The current Roland Berger study "Humanoid Robots 2026 – The Convergence Moment for a New Market" shows that advances in AI and robotics hardware could enable humanoid systems to operate at running costs of around two US dollars per hour in the future. This would make them a decisive lever in high-wage countries to safeguard competitiveness and foster new industries.
Winners of the 2026 Microsoft Intelligent Manufacturing Award honored together with Roland Berger
Roland Berger - The winners of the 2026 Microsoft Intelligent Manufacturing Award (MIMA) have just been announced. The prestigious award is now in its seventh year of recognizing pioneering solutions that are shaping the future of the manufacturing industry. The winners were once again selected by a high-profile jury of experts from industry, academia and the consultancy sector.
The independent automotive aftermarket as a solution provider throughout the vehicle lifetime
Roland Berger - 82 percent of all vehicle workshops in the EU are not brand-affiliated, and 62 percent of the market volume of spare parts and components are sold in the independent aftermarket. This means that a large proportion of the almost 280 million passenger cars and commercial vehicles in the EU are serviced by the multi-brand independent aftermarket (IAM for short), particularly as vehicle manufacturers (OEMs) continue to reduce the numbers of their own sales and service locations.