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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.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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