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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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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