Renuka Apte, right, is CEO of nail-painting robot startup Clockwork Labs, which she founded in 2018 with a former Dropbox and Wibidata colleague Aaron Feldstein (not pictured), now her CTO.

Although it will hardly upend the economy on its own, Clockwork’s nail-painting robot is one more sign of the wave of automation coming for many parts of society. As automation ingratiates ...

The new Clockwork Robot machine—set up in three North Texas-area Targets—will give you a “minicure” in about 10 minutes.