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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Laboratory Tester (Lab Tester)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Laboratory Tester (Lab Tester)” 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 Tester (Lab Tester)” 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.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • 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.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

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

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

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