Even if you were playing with a coach, the question of: "Why do I play so well with my coach and then I can't transfer that good play to a match?" comes up as a regular subject.
With a robot you work on specific techniques which may or may not come up in match play or playing with a human. It is worth using one. But it is also worth knowing that it is not how real play in table tennis occurs.
You have to play a lot of different people and adjust to how each different person plays. Because it is not just that the robot doesn't hit like a person. No two people hit quite the same.
NextLevel's point about seeing some of what you are doing is really worth while. With a tool like a robot you could be getting the ball on the table over and over and yet still be making the same mistake over and over.
Anyway, here is a video that I think helps understand the subject. I have posted this many times for various reasons. So has NextLevel. It is worth watching the whole thing. Maybe even more than once.
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