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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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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