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Automation Risk Analysis

Will “Scientific Research Associate” be Automated?

Historical Context: Oxford Study (2013)

Ranked #319 of 702. Estimated risk: 57.0%

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AI Exposure Risk

55%

“Scientific Research 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%

“Scientific Research 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

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

  • Order and inventory materials to maintain supplies.

  • Compile and interpret results of tests and analyses.

  • 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.

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

  • Provide technical support or assistance to chemists or engineers.

  • 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.

  • Direct or monitor other workers producing chemical products.

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

  • Operate experimental pilot plants, assisting with experimental design.

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

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

  • 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.

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

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