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Fabricate medical devices

Work activity · O*NET

Fabricate medical devices is an intermediate work activity in the O*NET database — a concrete task that recurs across many occupations , grouped under Handling and Moving Objects. 17 occupations report doing it as part of their work.

What it involves

The most common detailed activities O*NET records under this category, ranked by how many occupation tasks map to each.

  • Fabricate medical devices
  • Construct customized assistive medical or dental devices
  • Make patient-assistive devices or device models
  • Cast molds of patient anatomies to create medical or dental devices

How AI is applied to this activity

Microsoft's "Working with AI" study mapped real Bing Copilot conversations to O*NET work activities. The figures below are their measurements for this activity — they describe how AI is used today in one assistant's data, not a forecast that the activity will be automated.

AI completes it successfully 100.0% When Copilot attempts this activity, how often it finishes the task
Scope AI handles 0.0% How much of the activity AI carries within a conversation
How often AI is applied here 4th pct Percentile across all measured activities by how often AI performs them

Source: Microsoft "Working with AI" (working-with-ai). A high completion rate means AI can assist the activity in isolation — it does not mean an occupation that performs it is being automated, since every job blends many activities.

Detailed work activities

The more granular units of work O*NET groups under this activity, ordered by how many occupations perform them.

Occupations that perform this activity

Ranked by how many of the occupation's tasks map to this activity.

Occupation Tasks
Dental Assistants 4
Dental Laboratory Technicians 4
Opticians, Dispensing 4
Orthotists and Prosthetists 4
Medical Appliance Technicians 3
Medical Dosimetrists 3
Dental Hygienists 1
Dentists, General 1
Hearing Aid Specialists 1
Occupational Therapists 1
Occupational Therapy Assistants 1
Ophthalmic Laboratory Technicians 1
Orthodontists 1
Physical Therapists 1
Podiatrists 1
Radiation Therapists 1
Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers 1
Exposure quadrant: AI task-overlap percentile vs Median pay AI task-overlap (horizontal) versus median pay (vertical), each as a percentile across all scored occupations, for 16 occupations in occupations that perform Fabricate medical devices.. Overlap measures shared tasks with AI, not automation. Lower overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · higher pay Higher overlap · lower pay Lower overlap · lower pay Shoe and Leather Workers and Repairers Dental Laboratory Technicians Dental Hygienists Ophthalmic Laboratory Technicians Dentists, General Orthotists and Prosthetists Occupational Therapy Assistants Radiation Therapists Hearing Aid Specialists Opticians, Dispensing Podiatrists AI task-overlap percentile → ↑ Median pay
Occupations that perform Fabricate medical devices., by AI task-overlap and median pay

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.

Cite this page
Plain

Singulariki. "Fabricate medical devices." Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Built from O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026. https://singulariki.com/activities/fabricate-medical-devices

APA

Singulariki. (2026). Fabricate medical devices. Singulariki: a source-backed encyclopedia of work. Retrieved June 7, 2026, from https://singulariki.com/activities/fabricate-medical-devices

BibTeX 
@misc{singulariki-fabricate-medical-devices,
  title  = {Fabricate medical devices},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Microsoft “Working with AI” working-with-ai. Accessed June 7, 2026},
  url    = {https://singulariki.com/activities/fabricate-medical-devices}
}

Citations name the underlying public dataset releases — they reflect what this page is built from, not just the URL.