BlackRock's so-called systematic active equity group will be able to use natural language processing to give investors more forward-looking views of sector definitions. (Photo: Getty)

(Bloomberg) — BlackRock Inc., the world's largest asset manager that has a multitrillion-dollar kingdom of passively managed portfolios, is turning to robots to drive its latest push into active exchange-traded funds.

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