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Multilimb Coordination

Ability · O*NET work requirement

The ability to coordinate two or more limbs (for example, two arms, two legs, or one leg and one arm) while sitting, standing, or lying down. It does not involve performing the activities while the whole body is in motion.

In the O*NET occupational database, Multilimb Coordination is an ability that work requires. O*NET rates how important it is (1–5) and what level of it a job needs (0–7) for every U.S. occupation. It is rated as important (3 or higher) in 250 of 894 occupations.

Breadth here means how widely O*NET rates this ability as important across occupations — not that it is rare, high-paying, or currently in employer demand.

Occupations that rely most on Multilimb Coordination

Ranked by O*NET importance to the occupation (1–5). Bars are sized against the 1–5 scale; the level column is what depth of the ability the job needs (0–7).

Occupation Importance Score Level
Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers 4.4 4.1
Excavating and Loading Machine and Dragline Operators, Surface Mining 4.1 4.1
Structural Iron and Steel Workers 4.1 4.0
Airline Pilots, Copilots, and Flight Engineers 4.0 4.3
Crane and Tower Operators 4.0 4.0
Derrick Operators, Oil and Gas 4.0 3.9
Electrical Power-Line Installers and Repairers 4.0 4.0
Farm Equipment Mechanics and Service Technicians 4.0 4.0
Pile Driver Operators 4.0 4.0
Agricultural Equipment Operators 3.9 3.9
Aircraft Mechanics and Service Technicians 3.9 4.0
Commercial Divers 3.9 3.8
Commercial Pilots 3.9 4.1
Earth Drillers, Except Oil and Gas 3.9 3.9
Heavy and Tractor-Trailer Truck Drivers 3.9 4.0
Highway Maintenance Workers 3.9 3.9
Industrial Truck and Tractor Operators 3.9 4.0
Millwrights 3.9 3.9
Operating Engineers and Other Construction Equipment Operators 3.9 4.0
Subway and Streetcar Operators 3.9 3.9
Tank Car, Truck, and Ship Loaders 3.9 3.9
Tree Trimmers and Pruners 3.9 3.8
Bus Drivers, Transit and Intercity 3.8 3.5
Continuous Mining Machine Operators 3.8 3.9
Dredge Operators 3.8 4.0
Fallers 3.8 3.9
Farmworkers and Laborers, Crop, Nursery, and Greenhouse 3.8 3.5
Helpers--Extraction Workers 3.8 3.9
Locomotive Engineers 3.8 3.9
Logging Equipment Operators 3.8 4.0
Rail Car Repairers 3.8 3.8
Rail-Track Laying and Maintenance Equipment Operators 3.8 4.0
Reinforcing Iron and Rebar Workers 3.8 3.4
Roof Bolters, Mining 3.8 3.9
Rotary Drill Operators, Oil and Gas 3.8 3.5
Roustabouts, Oil and Gas 3.8 3.3
Service Unit Operators, Oil and Gas 3.8 3.6
Upholsterers 3.8 3.8
Explosives Workers, Ordnance Handling Experts, and Blasters 3.6 3.5
Boilermakers 3.6 3.0

Showing the top 40 of 250 occupations where this is important.

How AI is used by roles that need Multilimb Coordination

This ability is not itself "being automated" — but we can look at the roles for which O*NET rates it important and ask how those people actually use AI. This rolls the Anthropic Economic Index per-role signal up across those roles (importance-weighted). 34.0% of the 250 roles where this is important carry observed AI-usage data (85 roles).

Across those roles, 32.0% of AI conversations are people working with AI and 30.9% hand a task to AI , with an average autonomy of 3.47 / 5.

Collaboration pattern Share What it means
directive 24.6% AI does it; you give the instruction
learning 20.7% you ask AI to explain or teach
task iteration 11.0% you and AI go back and forth
feedback loop 6.3% AI does it, then adjusts from your feedback
validation 0.3% you do it; AI checks your work

Roles behind this signal

The roles where this ability is most important and that also have the most AEI data. "Works with AI" is the role's share of conversations that augment rather than automate.

Occupation Importance Works with AI Autonomy
Correctional Officers and Jailers 3.0 52.7% 3.0/5
Choreographers 3.6 54.5% 4.0/5
Craft Artists 3.1 42.4% 4.0/5
Textile Knitting and Weaving Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 3.5 27.2% 4.0/5
Industrial Machinery Mechanics 3.6 22.8% 4.0/5
Dentists, General 3.6 77.1% 3.0/5
Textile Cutting Machine Setters, Operators, and Tenders 3.1 27.2% 4.0/5
Patternmakers, Wood 3.1 30.1% 2.5/5
Athletic Trainers 3.1 56.4% 4.0/5
First-Line Supervisors of Landscaping, Lawn Service, and Groundskeeping Workers 3.0 18.5% 3.0/5
Veterinary Assistants and Laboratory Animal Caretakers 3.0 54.2% 3.5/5
Adapted Physical Education Specialists 3.0 55.1% 3.0/5

Source: Anthropic Economic Index (2026-01-15-v4-plus-2025-03-27-v2) over a sample of Claude.ai Free and Pro conversations — not all AI tools and not the whole workforce. Shares are of observed conversations, weighted by how important this ability is to each role; some conversations are left unclassified by Anthropic's taxonomy, so shares need not sum to 100.

Industries that concentrate this

Where Multilimb Coordination matters most across the economy. Employment reach is the share of an industry's workers in occupations that significantly rely on Multilimb Coordination (O*NET importance ≥ 3 of 5). Concentration compares that reach to the national average industry, so a value above 1× means the requirement is more pervasive here than across the economy as a whole.

Nationally, about 19.5% of workers are in occupations that significantly rely on Multilimb Coordination (measured across 67 industries).

Sectors with the most such workers

Sector Workers Employment reach
Manufacturing 4,818,460 37.8%
Transportation and Warehousing 4,686,540 63.4%
Construction 4,581,820 56.4%
Retail Trade 3,626,270 23.3%
Administrative and Support and Waste Management and Remediation Services 2,518,460 27.9%
Wholesale Trade 1,864,610 30.9%
Other Services (except Public Administration) 1,203,380 27.2%
Health Care and Social Assistance 1,138,000 4.9%
Real Estate and Rental and Leasing 585,380 24.7%
Educational Services 566,800 4.2%
Arts, Entertainment, and Recreation 508,760 19.3%
Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services 388,640 3.6%

Industries where it is most concentrated

Industry Level Concentration Employment reach
Landscaping Services National industry 4.27× 83.3%
Agriculture, Forestry, Fishing and Hunting Sector 3.98× 77.7%
Masonry Contractors National industry 3.91× 76.3%
Painting and Wall Covering Contractors National industry 3.88× 75.6%
Poured Concrete Foundation and Structure Contractors National industry 3.73× 72.8%
Drywall and Insulation Contractors National industry 3.7× 72.2%
Electrical Contractors and Other Wiring Installation Contractors National industry 3.36× 65.6%
Transportation and Warehousing Sector 3.25× 63.4%
Roofing Contractors National industry 3.14× 61.3%
Power and Communication Line and Related Structures Construction National industry 3.02× 58.8%
Other Building Equipment Contractors National industry 3.01× 58.7%
Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction Sector 2.99× 58.3%

Reach is a measure of how widespread a requirement is across an industry's workforce, not how intensively any individual uses it. Sector worker counts come from BLS OEWS employment; the significance threshold and tool use come from O*NET. Industries shown by concentration are filtered to a real worker base so a tiny specialty cannot top the list on rounding.

Capabilities required by many of the same occupations — a measure of which skills, knowledge and abilities tend to travel together, not a judgment of similarity.

Capability Type Shared occupations
Trunk Strength Ability 187
Manual Dexterity Ability 237
Control Precision Ability 217
Arm-Hand Steadiness Ability 237
Static Strength Ability 152
Finger Dexterity Ability 211
Operation and Control Cross-functional skill 158
Extent Flexibility Ability 139
Reaction Time Ability 129
Operations Monitoring Cross-functional skill 173
Mechanical Knowledge 162
Visualization Ability 181

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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Singulariki. "Multilimb Coordination." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27). Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/abilities/multilimb-coordination

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Singulariki. (2026). Multilimb Coordination. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/abilities/multilimb-coordination

BibTeX
@misc{singulariki-multilimb-coordination,
  title  = {Multilimb Coordination},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS) May 2024; Census NAICS 2022; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27). Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/abilities/multilimb-coordination}
}

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