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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

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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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