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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Analytical Laboratory Technician (Analytical Lab Technician)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Analytical Laboratory Technician (Analytical Lab Technician)” will maybe be replaced by AI.

Based on the cognitive demands, communication requirements, and logical reasoning intrinsic to this occupation according to O*NET data, we project a 55% probability of disruption by generative AI and Large Language Models.

Automation & Robot Risk

53%

“Analytical Laboratory Technician (Analytical Lab Technician)” will maybe be replaced by robots.

Evaluating the physical dexterity, repetitive motion tasks, and manual labor associated with this role, our analysis indicates a 53% likelihood of substitution by advanced robotics systems.

Personal & Financial Insights

Every occupation has a unique profile. For Chemical Technicians, the Bureau of Labor Statistics and O*NET classify the day-to-day work broadly as: Conduct chemical and physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative and quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, and gaseous materials for research and development of new products or processes, quality control, maintenance of environmental standards, and other work involving experimental, theoretical, or practical application of chemistry and related sciences.

Avg. Annual Salary $61,300
Avg. Hourly Wage $29.47
Available Jobs (US) 55,640
Job Title & Hierarchy Code (SOC) Chemical Technicians #19-4031
Wage vs. National Median
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Data is based on the reference occupation: “Chemical Technicians”

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Core Skills & Abilities

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Design or fabricate experimental apparatus to develop new products or processes.

  • Set up and conduct chemical experiments, tests, and analyses, using techniques such as chromatography, spectroscopy, physical or chemical separation techniques, or microscopy.

  • Prepare chemical solutions for products or processes, following standardized formulas, or create experimental formulas.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Provide and maintain a safe work environment by participating in safety programs, committees, or teams and by conducting laboratory or plant safety audits.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Write technical reports or prepare graphs or charts to document experimental results.

  • Develop or conduct programs of sampling and analysis to maintain quality standards of raw materials, chemical intermediates, or products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Train new employees on topics such as the proper operation of laboratory equipment.

  • Maintain, clean, or sterilize laboratory instruments or equipment.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Monitor product quality to ensure compliance with standards and specifications.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Conduct chemical or physical laboratory tests to assist scientists in making qualitative or quantitative analyses of solids, liquids, or gaseous materials.

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  • Laboratory pressing equipment
  • Differential refractometers
  • Face shields
  • Mercury vapor lamps
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Sample crushers
  • Hot air blowers
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Gas drying tubes
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Pull spring balances
  • Abbe refractometers
  • Thermocouples
  • Comparators
  • Mainframe computers
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Glass tubing
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Electronic toploading balances
  • Metering pumps
  • Liquid transfer pumps
  • Drying pistols
  • Ball mills
  • McLeod gauges
  • Capillary tubing
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Gas leak detectors
  • Liquid chromatography equipment
  • Test tube clamps
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Ruby lasers
  • Aneroid barometers
  • Volume displacement pumps
  • Graphite furnaces
  • Chromatography developing tanks
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Ammeters
  • Single-pan balances
  • Radiation detectors
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Rheometers
  • Viscosity meters
  • Lasers
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Heating mantles
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Volumetric glass pipettes
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Gas chromatography equipment
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
  • Infrared lamps
  • Automatic pipette cleaners
  • Polarizers
  • U-tube manometers
  • Computer-controlled pumps
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Immersion heaters
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • Exhaust hoods
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Geiger-Muller counters
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Distilling condensers
  • Agitation tanks
  • Lyophilizers
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Plastic cuvettes
  • pH indicators
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Autotitrators
  • Cork borer sets
  • Safety showers
  • Westphal balances
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Monochromators
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Asbestos gloves
  • Buchner funnels
  • Fluorimeters
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Flame ionization detectors FID
  • Bell jars
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • Cooling baths
  • Gravity convection ovens
  • Automatic burets
  • Benchtop centrifuges
  • Triple beam balances
  • Evaporator rotators
  • Fourier transfer infrared FTIR spectrometers
  • Tension gauges
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Velometers
  • Flame photometers
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Homogenizers
  • Ionization gauges
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Mortars and pestles
  • Multimeters
  • Mass spectrometers
  • Atomic emissions spectroscopes
  • Meker burners
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Water aspirators
  • Finger pumps
  • Voltmeters
  • Organic carbon analyzers
  • Bunsen burners
  • Pycnometers
  • Prisms
  • Hydrometers
  • Unequal-arm balances
  • Utility clamps
  • Nebulizers
  • Gas burners
  • Lecture bottles
  • Glass burets
  • Digital handheld thermometers
  • Photocells
  • Personal computers
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Perchloric acid hoods
  • Reaction flasks
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Bimetallic strip thermometers
  • Torsion balances
  • Claisen flasks
  • Filter pumps
  • Desktop computers
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Dye lasers
  • Laboratory balances
  • Refrigerated coolers
  • Polarimeters
  • Graphing calculators
  • Steam baths
  • Fluid scintillation counters
  • Photo detectors
  • Molecular stills
  • Coulometers
  • Safety goggles
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Ultraviolet UV lamps
  • Pressure gauges
  • Rotameters
  • Transfer pipettes
  • Reflux condensers
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Vacuum flask traps
  • Dessicators
  • Safety glasses
  • Gravitational field indicators
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Rotary evaporators
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • Laboratory blenders
  • Titrators
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Pirani gauges
  • Turbidimeters
  • Safety gloves
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Canister gas masks
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Mercury barometers
  • Vapor monitor badges
  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Bubble flow meters

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