Nimble helps avoid the nail salon. Nail salons everywhere may soon face a serious competitor: Nimble, the robot manicurist. The company calls it the world's first smart home nail salon. It is a revolutionary device that lets you get a flawless manicure at home without any hassle. Nimble uses patented pioneering technology to scan, paint and dry your nails with one game-changing device.

We're used to robot vacuums and robots in factories - but would you get a manicure from a robot? Clockwork, which says it designs robots to'liberate people from everyday mundane tasks,' just inked a deal to put its manicure machines inside six Target locations across the United States - including locations in Texas, California and Minnesota. The bots utilize artificial intelligence and 3-D technology to determine the size and shape of a person's hands and then provide manicures in only ten minutes for $10. Target is one of several retailers expressing interest in the robots, which could disrupt the $6.5 billion nail industry if they're widely embraced by consumers. Clockwork's manicure robot has been deployed to six Target locations in the US, including in Texas, California and Minnesota The bots utilize artificial intelligence and 3-D technology to determine the size and shape of a person's hands and then provide manicures in only ten minutes for $10 'We're pushing tens of thousands of partnership requests at this point,' Clockwork CEO Renuka Apte told Yahoo Finance.

What industry will robots revolutionize next? Boston Consulting Group projects the market for all professional services robots, including the manicure bots, to grow significantly in the coming years and reach $170 billion by 2030. Retailers, meanwhile, are starting to incorporate robots and artificial intelligence inside stores. For instance: Clockwork, the company behind the first manicure robot, recently reached a deal with Target (TGT) to include its robots in six U.S. locations, including stores in Texas, California and Minnesota. Clockwork's manicure robot is the first of its kind.

I hate mowing the lawn. First off, a vast expanse of unproductive grass is a waste--why have grass when you could have a garden, or an orchard, or all sorts of other useful plants? That I have to push around a device just to maintain this green wasteland makes it doubly insulting. Fortunately, this summer I unleashed the Husqvarna 435X AWD automower on my lawn. Now I never have to think about mowing it again.

I recently visited China on a business trip. While there, I decided I wanted to get a pedicure. My search turned into quite the adventure -- one that involved cutting edge translation technology, and a key word lost in translation. Google and Baidu (which is often referred to as China's Google) have built voice translation apps, available here and here. You speak into them, they listen and then they translate into the language you choose.