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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Laboratory Chemical Assistant (Lab Chemical 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 Chemical Assistant (Lab Chemical 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 Chemical Assistant (Lab Chemical 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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