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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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • 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.

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

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

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

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