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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

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

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

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

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

  • 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.

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

  • Develop new chemical engineering processes or production techniques.

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

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

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

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

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