EditorialAmadeo, a spa technician at the Hotel Mezzatorre in Forio, on the Italian island of Ischia, with a handful of the mud used in treatments on June 2, 2023. (Francesco Lastrucci/The New York Times)
EditorialAmadeo, a spa technician at the Hotel Mezzatorre in Forio, on the Italian island of Ischia, with a handful of the mud used in treatments on June 2, 2023. (Francesco Lastrucci/The New York Times)
EditorialAmadeo, a spa technician at the Hotel Mezzatorre in Forio, on the Italian island of Ischia, with a handful of the mud used in treatments on June 2, 2023. (Francesco Lastrucci/The New York Times)
EditorialAmadeo, a spa technician at the Hotel Mezzatorre in Forio, on the Italian island of Ischia, with a handful of the mud used in treatments on June 2, 2023. (Francesco Lastrucci/The New York Times)
EditorialRobin Johnson, a robot technician at Embodied, works on a Moxie unit at the company's lab in Pasadena, Calif., April 6, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialRobin Johnson, a robot technician at Embodied, works on a Moxie unit at the company's lab in Pasadena, Calif., April 6, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialRobin Johnson, a robot technician at Embodied, works on a Moxie unit at the company's lab in Pasadena, Calif., April 6, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialRobin Johnson, a robot technician at Embodied, works on a Moxie unit at the company's lab in Pasadena, Calif., April 6, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialRobin Johnson, a robot technician at Embodied, works on a Moxie unit at the company's lab in Pasadena, Calif., April 6, 2023. (Alex Welsh/The New York Times)
EditorialBev Kolpin, 57, a former sonogram technician at a Providence hospital who was billed $8,000 for a surgery despite being eligible for discounted rates, at home in Gresham, Ore. on Aug. 12, 2022. (Jovelle Tamayo/The New York Times)
EditorialLaura Emmert, a lab and field technician at the Gray Fossil Site and Museum in Tennessee, brushes away dirt from a tapir skull, in Gray, Tenn. on Sept. 1, 2022. (Mike Belleme/The New York Times)
EditorialAn ultrasound technician performs an ultrasound on a 21-year-old pregnant patient seeking an abortion at Planned Parenthood's clinic in Fort Myers, Fla., on May 11, 2022. (Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times)
EditorialShakeel Taiyab, an independent repair technician, unboxes certified repair equipment shipped by Apple, in South San Francisco, May 19, 2022. (Ulysses Ortega/The New York Times)
EditorialCarlos Aviles, a pharmacy technician at Temple University Hospital and a member of the Pennsylvania Association of Staff Nurses and Allied Professionals, in Philadelphia on Aug. 9, 2021. (Damon Winter/The New York Times)
EditorialA detail of the robot Athena in Athens, Greece on Aug. 26, 2021, that was built by Saidullah Karimi, an orthopedic technician from Afghanistan. (Loulou d'Aki/The New York Times)