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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Research and Development Associate (R & D Associate)” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Research and Development Associate (R & D Associate)” 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%

“Research and Development Associate (R & D Associate)” 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

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • 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.

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

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

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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