Barbara Webb

Barbara Webb

Barbara Webb obtained a BSc in Psychology at the University of Sydney followed by a PhD in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh, where she began her exploration of insect-inspired robots by building a robot cricket (featured in Scientific American). She held faculty positions at the University of Nottingham and University of Stirling before returning to the University of Edinburgh where she is now Professor of Biorobotics in the School of Informatics. She leads the Insect Robotics group, investigating navigation, learning and sensorimotor control, and holds an EPSRC Advanced Career Fellowship to study how insect grasp objects. She has been invited to write reviews describing her pioneering approach to using robots to understand animal behavior for Nature and Science. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2022.

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  • Organization
    University of Edinburgh
  • Profession
    Professor of Biorobotics, School of Informatics
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In person
7 July 2026
12:15 - 12:30
EST - New York
CST - Beijing
PST - Los Angeles
AWST - Perth, Australia

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