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Robotics Technicians

Build, install, test, or maintain robotic equipment or related automated production systems.

56 AI exposure
46 Human advantage
54 Market demand
52 AI leverage

Is Robotics Technicians a safe career from AI?

Robotics Technicians scores 56 out of 100 for AI exposure, around the middle of the US labor market. Parts of this work overlap with what AI does well and parts do not.

Its human advantage score is 46. There is a real physical and in-person component to this work, alongside a good deal that could be done from anywhere. Market demand scores 54 out of 100, combining how many of these jobs exist with where that number is heading. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects employment roughly flat over ten years.

What Robotics Technicians pay

The median wage is $70,760 a year. The lower quarter earns under $58,570 and the upper quarter over $87,320. About 14,680 people do this work in the United States.

Where Robotics Technicians can go next

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Where this comes from

Work content and transitions from O*NET, the US Department of Labor's occupational database. Wages and employment projections from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. AI exposure from published research measuring which occupations current AI capabilities overlap with. None of it is a forecast, and none of these numbers are ours: they are public data, put next to each other.

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