Maintain medical laboratory equipment.

Maintain medical laboratory equipment. is a detailed work activity in O*NET — a concrete unit of work shared across 4 occupations and seen in 9 occupation-specific tasks. It rolls up into the broader work activity Maintain medical equipment or instruments. in Repairing and Maintaining Mechanical Equipment .

Detailed work activities are the most granular shared layer in O*NET's work-activity hierarchy (Generalized → Intermediate → Detailed → occupation-specific task). The figures below describe how this activity shows up across the economy and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the work will be automated.

AI exposure

Of the 9 tasks under this activity that the OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rated, 0 (0%) are flagged as directly exposed to language models (E1) or exposed via model-powered tools (E2).

The Anthropic Economic Index observes real AI use on 2 of these tasks, with a mean mapped-usage share of 0.002% per task.

Exposure estimates overlap with model capabilities — whether a model could speed the task up — not whether the work will be done by software. Observed AI use is augmentation and assistance today, not jobs replaced.

Member tasks

Occupation-specific tasks O*NET maps to this detailed work activity, most important first.

• Set up, clean, and maintain laboratory equipment. · Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists · importance 4.7 · no direct exposure
• Operate, calibrate, or maintain equipment used in quantitative or qualitative analysis, such as spectrophotometers, calorimeters, flame photometers, or computer-controlled analyzers. · Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists · importance 4.7 · no direct exposure
• Set up, maintain, calibrate, clean, and test sterility of medical laboratory equipment. · Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians · importance 4.7 · no direct exposure
• Maintain and calibrate radioisotope and laboratory equipment. · Nuclear Medicine Technologists · importance 4.6 · no direct exposure
• Maintain laboratory equipment such as photomicroscopes, inverted microscopes, and standard darkroom equipment. · Cytogenetic Technologists · importance 4.4 · no direct exposure
• Resolve problems with laboratory equipment and instruments, such as microscopes, mass spectrometers, microtomes, immunostainers, tissue processors, embedding centers, and water baths. · Histotechnologists · importance 4.3 · no direct exposure
• Adjust, maintain, or repair laboratory equipment, such as microscopes. · Cytotechnologists · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Maintain laboratory equipment, such as microscopes, mass spectrometers, microtomes, immunostainers, tissue processors, embedding centers, and water baths. · Histology Technicians · importance 4.1 · no direct exposure
• Prepare or calibrate equipment used to collect or analyze samples. · Occupational Health and Safety Technicians · importance 3.8 · no direct exposure

Occupations that perform this

• Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technologists
• Medical and Clinical Laboratory Technicians
• Nuclear Medicine Technologists
• Occupational Health and Safety Technicians

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.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27) Anthropic
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

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

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  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; Anthropic Economic Index v4 (2026-01-15) + v2 (2025-03-27); “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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