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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Research Technician” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Research Technician” 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 Technician” 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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

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

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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  • Immersion heaters
  • Hirsch funnels
  • Plastic cuvettes
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  • Mass spectrometers
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  • Flame photometers
  • Laboratory blenders
  • Homogenizers
  • Liquid-filled remote thermometers
  • Safety glasses
  • Dust and particulate respirators
  • Lyophilizers
  • Laminar flow burners
  • Polarimeters
  • Laboratory centrifugal pumps
  • Autotitrators
  • Automatic buret cleaners
  • Ultraviolet UV light detectors
  • High pressure liquid chromatograph HPLC equipment
  • Dessicators
  • Steam baths
  • Canister gas masks
  • Gas burners
  • Rheometers
  • Glass tubing
  • Fire extinguishers
  • Hollow cathode lamps
  • Cartesian manostats
  • Bubble-cap fractionating columns
  • Rotary evaporators
  • Gas chromatography equipment
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  • Nebulizers
  • Monochromators
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  • Polarizers
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  • Desktop computers
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  • Mainframe computers
  • Gravitational field indicators
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  • Thinlayer chromatography analyzers
  • Ultraviolet UV spectroscopes
  • Evaporating dishes
  • Cooling baths
  • Comparators
  • Beckmann thermometers
  • High pressure sodium lamps
  • Capillary tubing
  • Safety goggles
  • Laboratory vacuum hand pumps
  • Bunsen burners
  • U-tube manometers
  • Magnetic agitators
  • Gas drying tubes
  • Eyewash fountains
  • Prisms
  • Explosion-proof fume hoods
  • Atomic absorption AA spectroscopes
  • Automated polarimeters
  • Fluorimeters
  • Mercury barometers
  • Laboratory vacuum pumps
  • Differential refractometers
  • Muffle furnaces
  • Ionization gauges
  • Multimeters
  • Chromatography microsyringes
  • Dissolved oxygen meters
  • Laboratory tongs
  • Photomultiplier tubes
  • Hazardous material protective clothing
  • Gooch crucibles
  • Glass laboratory crucibles
  • Velometers
  • Heating mantles
  • Gravity convection ovens
  • Optical pyrometers
  • Glass burets
  • Infrared IR spectroscopes
  • Meker burners
  • Radioisotope fume hoods
  • Vacuum gauges
  • Bourdon gauges
  • Automated microviscometers
  • Laboratory drying ovens
  • Westphal balances
  • Deuterium lamps
  • Laboratory flasks
  • Diffusion pumps
  • Optical compound microscopes
  • Pull spring balances
  • Magnetic stirring bars
  • Safety showers
  • Bell jars
  • Closed-end manometers
  • Volumetric flasks
  • Bubble flow meters
  • Differential scanning calorimeters
  • Filter pumps
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  • Benchtop centrifuges
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  • Triple beam balances
  • Bomb calorimeters
  • Personal computers
  • Torsion balances
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  • Coulometers
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  • Photo detectors
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  • Liquid chromatography/mass spectrometry LC/MS equipment
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  • Pressure gauges
  • Nuclear magnetic resonance NMR spectroscopes
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  • Graphing calculators
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  • Molecular stills
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  • Sample crushers
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  • Laboratory heating plates
  • Ion exchange chromatography equipment
  • Utility clamps
  • Constant temperature water baths
  • Hydrometers
  • Optical beamsplitting devices
  • Ultracentrifuges
  • Thermal conductivity detectors
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  • Geiger-Muller counters
  • Dye lasers
  • Metering pumps
  • Radiation detectors
  • Lecture bottles
  • Single-pan balances
  • Spectrophotometers
  • Photocells
  • Buchner funnels
  • Viscosity meters
  • Abbe refractometers

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