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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Chemistry Research Assistant” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Chemistry Research 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%

“Chemistry Research 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

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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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