Repair, adjust, or install audio or television receivers, stereo systems, camcorders, video systems, or other electronic home entertainment equipment.
U.S. Workers
22,170
Median Salary
$50,620
10-Year Growth
+6.6%
Annual Openings
2,600
Typical entry: Postsecondary nondegree award
11 of 11 tasks have some AI capability
Exposure Trend
This score reflects estimated AI technical capability for tasks in this occupation. It does not predict employment changes, and it does not account for company-specific constraints, regulation, or adoption barriers.
Confer with customers to determine the nature of problems or to explain repairs.
AI: Fully automatable - Conversational AI and knowledge systems can effectively gather symptom information and explain repairs to customers across most cases without human intervention.
Instruct customers on the safe and proper use of equipment.
AI: Fully automatable - Providing safety guidance and operating instructions is well within current AI capabilities via automated, contextualized instructions and multimodal aids.
Compute cost estimates for labor and materials.
AI: Fully automatable - Estimating labor and material costs is a deterministic data and rules problem that AI can fully automate given pricing, labor rates, and parts data.
Read and interpret electronic circuit diagrams, function block diagrams, specifications, engineering drawings, and service manuals.
AI: Fully automatable - Modern vision and language models can read and interpret schematics, block diagrams, specs and service manuals and translate them into actionable guidance.
Keep records of work orders and test and maintenance reports.
AI: Fully automatable - Work order and maintenance record keeping is routine data entry and management that can be fully automated by AI systems integrated with workflows.
Disassemble entertainment equipment and repair or replace loose, worn, or defective components and wiring, using hand tools and soldering irons.
AI: Partial - Disassembling and repairing consumer entertainment gear involves fine manual work with hand tools and soldering; AI can assist with diagnostics and step‑by‑step guidance, but full autonomous bench repairs are not broadly available.
Install, service, and repair electronic equipment or instruments such as televisions, radios, and videocassette recorders.
AI: Partial - Physical installation, servicing and repair in varied home environments requires hands‑on manipulation and situational adaptability that AI/robots cannot fully perform broadly by 2025, though AI can assist with diagnostics and instructions.
Calibrate and test equipment, and locate circuit and component faults, using hand and power tools and measuring and testing instruments such as resistance meters and oscilloscopes.
AI: Partial - AI can automate testing, analyze measurements, and localize faults algorithmically, but cannot yet reliably perform the full suite of hands‑on use of tools and instrument manipulation in the field.
Tune or adjust equipment and instruments to obtain optimum visual or auditory reception, according to specifications, manuals, and drawings.
AI: Partial - AI can compute optimal settings and perform software/configurable adjustments, but manual tuning and physical adjustments for optimal reception often still require human technicians.
Make service calls to repair units in customers' homes, or return units to shops for major repairs.
AI: Partial - AI can schedule, triage and remotely diagnose service needs, but making physical service calls and performing on‑site repairs still require humans or specialized robotics not widely available in 2025.
Position or mount speakers, and wire speakers to consoles.
AI: Partial - Speaker positioning and wiring are physical tasks requiring manual dexterity and on‑site judgment, though AI can provide placement recommendations and wiring diagrams.