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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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

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