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Robotics Engineers
Research, design, develop, or test robotic applications.
10 main tasks · most important first
Your main tasks and AI
Importance- 01Review or approve designs, calculations, or cost estimates.AI could speed this up a lot
- 02Process or interpret signals or sensor data.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 03Debug robotics programs.People already use AI for this at work
- 04Build, configure, or test robots or robotic applications.Mostly human for now
- 05Create back-ups of robot programs or parameters.AI could speed this up a lot
- 06Provide technical support for robotic systems.People already use AI for this at work
- 07Design end-of-arm tooling.AI could speed this up, with extra tools
- 08Design robotic systems, such as automatic vehicle control, autonomous vehicles, advanced displays, advanced sensing, robotic platforms, computer vision, or telematics systems.AI could speed this up a lot
- 09Supervise technologists, technicians, or other engineers.Mostly human for now
- 10Design software to control robotic systems for applications, such as military defense or manufacturing.People already use AI for this at work
Tasks from O*NET® 31.0 (US Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0, changed by us), most important first. “Already use” comes from Anthropic’s data on real work chats with Claude; “could speed up” from task ratings made with GPT-4 in 2023.
Four studies, side by side
None is a forecast of job loss7%of this job’s work time goes to tasks that people already do with Claude at work, counting tasks where AI only helps as half (2026).Anthropic, 2026
59%of this job’s tasks an AI model could do in half the time, counting tasks that need extra tools as half (rated in 2023).Eloundou, Manning, Mishkin and Rock, 2023
Above 71% of jobsin how often and how well AI helped with this job’s work in Microsoft Copilot chats (2024 data).Microsoft Research (Tomlinson et al.), 2025
Above 29% of jobsin how much of this job’s physical work robots have been shown to do, from factories to homes (2026).Anthropic, 2026
Your human edge
The main tasks with no real AI use seen and no big speed-up expected. This is where your skill counts most today.
- Build, configure, or test robots or robotic applications.
- Supervise technologists, technicians, or other engineers.