Webb joined the
University of Nottingham in 1995. In 1999 she moved to the
University of Stirling. In 2001 she published the book
Biorobotics - Methods and Applications with Thomas Consi. She moved back to the School of Informatics at the
University of Edinburgh in May 2003. In 2004 she contributed to the publication
Foresight Cognitive Systems Project Research Review, Robotics and Cognition. Webb is interested in understanding how perceptual systems control of behaviour, which she studies by building computational and robotic models. They test their models in agent and robot systems. Her group research the navigation of ants, learning abilities of
drosophila and movement of crickets. She uses insect inspired robotics as an approach to control system design. She was appointed to a professor of Biorobotics in 2010. Her inaugural lecture discussed how biological systems are examples of the kind of machines roboticists want to build. That year, she delivered the
University of Edinburgh Christmas Lecture. Webb is interested in how ants, with brains small enough to fit on a pin head, can manage to navigate back to their homes. In 2017 she demonstrated how ants use the position of the sun to walk backwards. The discovery attracted media attention and in an interview Webb said that they "could be taking images and comparing them continuously, but are able to mentally rotate the views to adjust to backward walking". ==Awards and honours==