Artificial intelligence and robotics are ever-expanding industries, with new research and innovations coming out every day and major companies competing to get the next and best new tech. What are the best ways to begin investing into the space?

As part of Yahoo Finance's Robotics Week: Investing in Tomorrow special, BlackRock US Head of Thematic and Active ETFs Jay Jacobs sits down with Julie Hyman and Josh Schafer to talk about how investor portfolios can gain exposure to this next generation of technology.

"We're looking to provide exposure across the value chain of pure-play artificial intelligence companies. That includes everything from generative AI model developers to artificial intelligence infrastructure, software and data, as well as artificial intelligence hardware... think semiconductors," Jacobs tells Yahoo Finance. "The idea is that as you see more adoption of artificial intelligence, more use cases that are being put to work... we would expect more adoption of artificial intelligence to ultimately lift this basket of stocks. That is the idea behind really trying to be very, very specific about what is the value chain of artificial intelligence

BlackRock manages a variety of exchange-traded funds, including the iShares Future AI & Tech ETF (ARTY) and iShares Semiconductor ETF (SOXX).

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This post was written by Luke Carberry Mogan.