Jobs / Architecture and engineering / 17-3024.01
Robotics Technicians
Build, install, test, or maintain robotic equipment or related automated production systems.
- US jobs
- 15,520 (SOC 17-3024 group, "Electro-Mechanical and Mechatronics Technologists and Technicians")
- Median wage
- $73,900 a year
- Job family
- Architecture and engineering
Can agents do the work of robotics technicians?
We read the evidence at the level of the job family, Architecture and engineering:
- Task levelUnexploredNo task-level benchmark in our collection tests architecture or engineering design work, such as CAD modeling or engineering calculations.
- Project levelNot yetWhole projects are mostly out of reach. The Remote Labor Index includes 3D, CAD, and architecture projects; across all its projects, the best agent completed 15.8% to a standard a client would accept. GDPval includes mechanical engineers, and its deliverables score higher, but those tasks are one-shot and fully specified.
Benchmarks for the job family
These cover work in architecture and engineering, not always this occupation's tasks.
- 1846 EloClaude Opus 5.5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort, Default Fallback) · 23 Sep 2026Unrated
Typical tasks
From O*NET 31.0. Core tasks first. Few of these tasks have a benchmark today.
- Make repairs to robots or peripheral equipment, such as replacement of defective circuit boards, sensors, controllers, encoders, or servomotors.
- Troubleshoot robotic systems, using knowledge of microprocessors, programmable controllers, electronics, circuit analysis, mechanics, sensor or feedback systems, hydraulics, or pneumatics.
- Install, program, or repair programmable controllers, robot controllers, end-of-arm tools, or conveyors.
- Maintain service records of robotic equipment or automated production systems.
- Modify computer-controlled robot movements.
- Perform preventive or corrective maintenance on robotic systems or components.
- Align, fit, or assemble components, using hand tools, power tools, fixtures, templates, or microscopes.
- Attach wires between controllers.
- Evaluate the efficiency and reliability of industrial robotic systems, reprogramming or calibrating to achieve maximum quantity and quality.
- Test performance of robotic assemblies, using instruments such as oscilloscopes, electronic voltmeters, or bridges.
- Train customers or other personnel to install, use, or maintain robots.
- Build or assemble robotic devices or systems.
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Automation Technician · Electrical and Instrumentation Technician (E and I Technician) · Instrument and Automation Technician · Instrument Specialist · Instrument Technician · Instrumentation and Controls Technician · Instrumentation and Process Controls Technician · Process Control Technician · Programmable Logic Controllers Technician · Assembly Technician · Automation Control Integrator · Automation Control Technician · Automation Controls Expert · Automation Controls Specialist · Automation Engineering Technician · Automation Technologist · Electrical and Instrumentation Specialist · Equipment Maintenance Technician (Equipment Maintenance Tech) · Field Technician (Field Tech) · Robot Operator · Robot Programmer · Robot Technician · Robotic Technician · Robotic Weld Technician · Robotic Welder · Robotics Mechanic · Robotics Technician (Robotics Tech) · Robotics Technologist · Sensor Technician · Test Technician (Test Tech)