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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemical Laboratory Assistant (Chemical Lab Assistant)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemical Laboratory Assistant (Chemical Lab Assistant)” 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%

“Chemical Laboratory Assistant (Chemical Lab Assistant)” 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.

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

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

  • 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

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

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

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