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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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

  • 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.

  • 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.

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

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

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

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

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

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