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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.

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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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