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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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

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