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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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • 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.

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

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

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