(NOTE: This story was originally posted to CRN.com earlier on Jan. 5.)

Shaking Up The Industry

It's hard to miss the surging trends around IoT, robotics and virtual reality at CES 2017. But the line between these different categories is blurring, with vendors such as LG pointing out that home virtual assistant robots are also IoT. Meanwhile, chip makers such as Qualcomm, smartphone vendors such as Huawei and PC makers such as Lenovo, HP and Samsung are proving there's still room for innovation in those established categories.

Here's a roundup of the 10 most important stories we've been tracking during the first two days of CES 2017 news in Las Vegas.