The 20 jobs that robots are most likely to take over

Jewelers and precious stone and metal workers have a 95.5% chance of being automated.

The Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts their employment to decline 10% between now and 2022 as robots begin assisting in the manufacturing and repairing of jewelry.

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17. Restaurant cooks

Restaurant cooks have a 96.3% chance of being automated.

A noodle-slicing robot named Foxbot can be found at Dazzling Noodles, an open-kitchen restaurant chain in North China’s Shanxi province.

There’s another robot chef making crab bisque from scratch, thanks to 20 motors, 24 joints, and 129 sensors. The robot, designed by Moley Robotics, can complete the complicated dish in 30 minutes and even plates it.

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Workers who grind and polish materials have a 97% chance of being automated.

Robots are increasingly able to grind or polish a variety of metal, wood, stone, clay, plastic, and glass objects.

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Cashiers have a 97.1% chance of being automated.

Panera Bread announced that it will have replaced all of its cashiers with kiosks by 2016, according to a USA Today article.

Additionally, self-checkout machines are continuing to spring up in grocery stores around the world.

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Bookkeepers have a 97.6% chance of being automated.

The Wall Street Journal reported that big companies such as Pilot Travel, Verizon, and GameStop, among others, are using software to automate corporate bookkeeping tasks.

These companies now only need about 10 clerks to pay suppliers, as opposed to the 80 or so they would need without the robot bookkeepers.

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Legal secretaries have a 97.6% chance of being automated.

Secretaries are disappearing from the job market now that technology allows bosses to field calls and arrange meetings themselves.

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Surprisingly, fashion models have a 97.6% chance of being automated.

In addition to “taking over” fashion model jobs, robots are performing in other surprising ways, such as acting. Engineered Arts, a British company, has created a fully interactive and multilingual robot called the RoboThespian, which can hold eye contact, guess a person’s mood and age, and break into song.

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Drivers have a 97.8% chance of being automated.

Drivers and chauffeurs won’t be needed for much longer. Google’s self-driving test cars have driven thousands of miles without human intervention. Also, Uber CEO Travis Kalanick loves the idea of autonomous vehicles and announced that Uber will eventually be replacing all of its drivers with cars that drive themselves.

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Automating the process of analyzing credit data and financial statements, and preparing reports with credit information, could result in a lower degree of risk.

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Milling and planing machine setters, operators, and tenders have a 97.9% chance of being automated.

Setting up, operating, or tending milling or planing machines are tasks that are increasingly being delegated to machines.

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Using robots to prepare industrial or consumer products for storage or shipment is becoming more and more prevalent. Amazon now uses an army of robots — each 320 pounds and 16 inches tall — to bring shelves of goods out of storage in order to be shipped, reported Time.

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It is now very simple for machines to place orders with suppliers for materials and services. Also, ordering over the internet — or “e-procurement” — will result in a decline of these jobs.

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In professional tennis, a computerized umpire called Hawk Eye is already being used to help the chief umpire make close line calls. Players have the option of “challenging” a call, in which the Hawk Eye system will display where the ball landed and whether it was in or out. Its decisions are final.

Hawk Eye represents just one system being used to solve disputes in sports.

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Chances are you haven’t used a human bank teller in a while. ATMs can provide most of the services that tellers offer.

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A Bloomberg article reported that inroads are already being made at Daric Inc., an online peer-to-peer lender. The company has replaced all loan officers with an algorithm that identifies safe borrowers.

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Machines are now able to perform the precise assembling, adjusting, or calibrating that timing device assemblers specialize in.

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Tax preparers have a 98.7% chance of being automated.

Automating the process of preparing tax returns could result in much fewer errors, and the technology, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), already exists.

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Many of today’s cold-callers are not human. Robots can not only perform the job 24/7, but they can also maintain energy and perkiness no matter how many rude consumers they interact with.

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Author: Kathleen Elkins is an editorial intern at Business Insider.

Image: Twendy-One, a robot designed to help elderly and disabled people around the house, demonstrates serving toast at Waseda University in Tokyo. REUTERS/Issei Kato.