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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

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

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

  • 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.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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