Scientists have developed a new artificial intelligence software that can create 3D models from 2D photographs, an advance that could allow future robots to navigate in the real world. Researchers said, when fully developed, the method called SurfNet could have significant applications in the fields of 3D searches on the internet.<br/><br/>Professor at the Purdue University in the US, Kartik Rumani said, if you show the software hundreds of thousands of shapes of something such as a car and if you then show it a 2D image of a car, it can reconstruct that model in 3D.