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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Laboratory Assistant (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%

“Laboratory Assistant (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%

“Laboratory Assistant (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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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