BlackRock (BLK) launched the iShares Future Robotics and Related Technologies Active ETF, expanding its actively managed investment offerings focused on AI. The fund trades as RBTX on NYSE Arca, has a 0.65% expense ratio and uses MSCI ACWI Net as its performance benchmark. It seeks total return through companies developing, supplying or implementing robotics and automation of physical tasks.
Tony Kim and Reid Menge will manage RBTX; their technology team oversees more than $50 billion across AI and technology strategies. BlackRock’s existing AI-focused active ETF, BAI, had amassed more than $14 billion since its October 2024 launch, as of October 15, 2026. The iShares active ETF business had nearly doubled its assets over the past year to approximately $200 billion, as of September 30, 2026.