Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers
In short: today's best AI models could do about 4% of this job's working time (projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index) if the work were set up for them, and about the same by the end of 2028 if progress keeps its long-run pace. The people and hands-on work, about 96% of the time, stays with people.
Move or install mobile homes or prefabricated buildings.
3,020 people do this job in the US. $45,990 a year.
A typical 40-hour week
Not yet reviewed task by task- AI could take on2 h
- A person checks AI's work0 h
- Desk work AI can't do yet0 h
- Stays with people38 h
Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers, now: of a 40-hour week, AI could take on 2 hours, 0 hours become checking its work, 0 hours are desk work it can't do yet, and 38 hours stay with people.
The largest pieces: List parts needed, estimate costs, and plan work procedures, using parts lists, technical manuals, and diagrams (about 2 h).
Estimates for a typical week of this job, if progress keeps its long-run pace, counting work the best models finish four times in five. Every task is below.
of the working time. Now is projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index.
- 4%
- 1%
- 94%
of the work: Anthropic's measure of what people already bring to Claude at work (2025). It counts help with part of a task, so it can be higher than the share within reach.
On the chosen pace and reliability. Estimate.
Share of the working time within reach, now to 2030
Change assumptionsHide assumptionsLong-run pace, four in five
What each choice means: , , , , . Every pace starts from .
At this date and pace, models finish tasks up to 2.4 work days long four times in five.
How far this has come
With GPT-4, measured in March 2023, 0% of this job's working time was within reach at . With Claude 3.7 Sonnet, measured in February 2025, 0%. With Claude Mythos Preview (early), measured in April 2026, 4%. Today's estimate: 4%.
A backcast: today's task data with the best model METR had measured by each date. It shows how fast the models have moved, not what anyone forecast at the time.
Measured use over time
Of the Claude.ai conversations Anthropic sampled and tied to a work task, no reportable share went to this job's tasks in May 2026; 0 of its 14 tasks showed up. Within each of Anthropic's methods, never across a change: none to 0.0029% (August 2025 to February 2026).
Each release
| Conversations | Share | Rank | Tasks seen |
|---|---|---|---|
| Released February 2025 | none | n/a | 0 of 14 |
| Released March 2025 | none | n/a | 0 of 14 |
| The week of Aug 4, 2025 (released September 2025) | none | n/a | 0 of 14 |
| The week of Nov 13, 2025 (released January 2026) | none | n/a | 0 of 14 |
| The week of Feb 5, 2026 (released March 2026) | 0.0029% | 615 of 677 | 1 of 14 |
| April 2026 (released June 2026) | none | n/a | 0 of 14 |
| May 2026 (released June 2026) | none | n/a | 0 of 14 |
Measured, not estimated: Anthropic's samples of Claude.ai conversations, each tied by a model to an O*NET task, from the Anthropic Economic Index. It says where Claude's use goes, not how much of this job's working time it covers, so it is not on the same scale as the reach above. The releases differ in their sample, their classifier and the smallest share they report (the June 2026 file rounds each task to a hundredth of a percent, so a smaller task reads as none), which is why a change of method starts a new line. At least 96% of each older release's task-tied use matched this site's tasks, and all of the newest. Claude.ai only, so use through other tools and other companies' models is not in it. Every job ranked.
Robots and the physical work
Anthropic rates 89% of this job's working time as physical work. For 19% of the working time, a robot has been shown doing most of the task somewhere: 19% in a purpose-built cell. 0.19 of 3, the 445th highest of the 923 jobs.
- Not physical 11%
- No robot shown 70%
- In a purpose-built cell 19%
Anthropic's rating, not this site's estimate: Claude Opus 5, searching the web, rated each physical O*NET task by the kind of setting in which a robot it could cite (deployed, sold or demonstrated) does most of the task, weighted by its own estimate of each task's share of the time (What work can robots do?, September 30, 2026, data CC BY 4.0; every job ranked). A robot shown somewhere is not a robot in your building: cost, setup and safety decide that. The share within reach on this page still counts no body work. The robot behind each rated task is under the task below.
The tasks
Sorted by . 14 tasks from .
| Task | Kind | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Move and set up mobile homes or prefabricated buildings on owners' lots or at mobile home parks.Done daily by most who do it. Robots: no robot shown. Anthropic's rating. | 71% | 2.1 work days6.7 h to 4.2 work days | Stays with people | |
| Inspect, examine, and test the operation of parts or systems to evaluate operating condition and to determine if repairs are needed.Done more than yearly by most who do it. Robots: no robot shown. Anthropic's rating. | 7% | 1.3 h25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| List parts needed, estimate costs, and plan work procedures, using parts lists, technical manuals, and diagrams.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 4% | 50 min25 min to 2.1 h | 100%Half by now | |
| Seal open sides of modular units to prepare them for shipment, using polyethylene sheets, nails, and hammers.Done more than monthly by most who do it. Robots: in a purpose-built cell, Randek AutoWall / S3000 Auto Wall System (sold). Anthropic's rating. | 3% | 1.3 h25 min to 2.5 h | Stays with people | |
| Remove damaged exterior panels, repair and replace structural frame members, and seal leaks, using hand tools.Done more than yearly by most who do it. Robots: no robot shown. Anthropic's rating. | 3% | 4.2 h1.7 h to 1 work day | Stays with people | |
| Refinish wood surfaces on cabinets, doors, moldings, and floors, using power sanders, putty, spray equipment, brushes, paints, or varnishes.Done more than yearly by most who do it.Robots: in a purpose-built cell, Omnirobotic PSA-80 PRO panel sanding assistant (Autonomy OS) (sold). Anthropic's rating. | 2% | 3.3 h1.7 h to 1 work day | Stays with people | |
| Connect water hoses to inlet pipes of plumbing systems, and test operation of plumbing fixtures.Done more than monthly by most who do it. Robots: in a purpose-built cell, RND Automation hydraulic valve assembly cell (Epson T3/G3 SCARA and C8 six-axis robots, MagneMotion transfer) (deployed). Anthropic's rating. | 2% | 50 min25 min to 1.7 h | Stays with people | |
| Repair leaks in plumbing or gas lines, using caulking compounds and plastic or copper pipe.Done more than monthly by most who do it. Robots: no robot shown. Anthropic's rating. | 2% | 1.7 h38 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people | |
| Install, repair, and replace units, fixtures, appliances, and other items and systems in mobile and modular homes, prefabricated buildings, or travel trailers, using hand tools or power tools.Done more than monthly by most who do it. Robots: no robot shown. Anthropic's rating. | 2% | 2.5 h50 min to 5 h | Stays with people | |
| Open and close doors, windows, and drawers to test their operation, trimming edges to fit, using jackplanes or drawknives.Done more than monthly by most who do it. Robots: in a purpose-built cell, HOMAG CENTATEQ P-500|600 CNC cell with robotic feeding (Berkvens Deuren Systemen) (deployed). Anthropic's rating. | 2% | 50 min25 min to 2.1 h | Stays with people | |
| Confer with customers or read work orders to determine the nature and extent of damage to units.Done more than yearly by most who do it. | 1% | 25 min13 min to 50 min | Stays with people | |
| Locate and repair frayed wiring, broken connections, or incorrect wiring, using ohmmeters, soldering irons, tape, and hand tools.Done more than yearly by most who do it.Robots: no robot shown. Anthropic's rating. | 0.5% | 1.7 h38 min to 3.3 h | Stays with people |
Within reach, per task: the share of the task's time whose instances are short enough for a model to finish at the chosen date, pace and reliability. Half by: the date half of that time comes within reach.
Jobs that share skills with this one
From O*NET's related occupations. Within reach now and by the end of 2028, long-run pace, four in five.
- Aircraft Structure, Surfaces, Rigging, and Systems Assemblers4% now, 4% by 2028
- Carpenters15% now, 15% by 2028
- Millwrights0% now, 0% by 2028
- Structural Iron and Steel Workers3% now, 3% by 2028
- Helpers--Pipelayers, Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters0% now, 0% by 2028
- Plumbers, Pipefitters, and Steamfitters23% now, 23% by 2028
Where this job works
The industry groups that employ the most of it (BLS, May 2025).
Where the most of these jobs are
The metro areas with the most people in it (BLS, May 2025).
Questions about this job
- How much of the work of Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers is within reach of AI now?
- An estimated 4% of the working time is within reach of AI models now and 4% by the end of 2028, on METR's long-run pace at four in five. Within reach means a model could finish work that long at that reliability. It is not a forecast of jobs lost or of savings.
- Which tasks of Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers come within reach first?
- Weighted by the time each takes, the tasks with the most within reach now (projected from METR's April 2026 measurement and Epoch's November 2026 index) are: List parts needed, estimate costs, and plan work procedures, using parts lists, technical manuals, and diagrams (100% of the task's time now).
- Which tasks of Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers stay with people?
- Tasks that are people work or body work are not counted as within reach at any date. The largest: Move and set up mobile homes or prefabricated buildings on owners' lots or at mobile home parks; Inspect, examine, and test the operation of parts or systems to evaluate operating condition and to determine if repairs are needed; and Seal open sides of modular units to prepare them for shipment, using polyethylene sheets, nails, and hammers. Together such tasks are about 96% of the working time.
- Do people already use AI for the work of Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers?
- In the Claude.ai conversations Anthropic sampled for May 2026, no reportable share went to this job's tasks. Anthropic's labor market measure puts the share of the job's tasks seen in real Claude use at work at 0%. These are measures of use, not of how much of the work AI could finish, and they cover Claude only.
- Can robots do the physical work of Manufactured Building and Mobile Home Installers?
- Anthropic's robot exposure rating (September 2026) finds 89% of the working time is physical work, and that a robot has been shown doing most of the task, somewhere, for 19% of the working time. Its index is 0.19 of 3. One example: Randek AutoWall / S3000 Auto Wall System for "seal open sides of modular units to prepare them for shipment, using polyethylene sheets, nails, and hammers". A robot shown somewhere is not one in every workplace; this site's own estimates still count no physical work as within reach.
- How is this estimated?
- From the 14 tasks O*NET lists for the occupation, each with an estimated length checked against GDPval and a share of the working time, each classed as desk, people or body work, and METR's measurements of how long a task the best AI models can finish, carried forward to the date from the latest, Claude Mythos Preview (early) in April 2026. Data checked November 10, 2026.
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