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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Laboratory Worker (Lab Worker)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Laboratory Worker (Lab Worker)” 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 Worker (Lab Worker)” 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.

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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