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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

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

  • 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.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

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

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

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

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