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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

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

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

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

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