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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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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