It can be tough enough playing against some humans with professional poker players eating up your chip stacks. It is even worse doing this against a robot. How do you know the robot has good strategy and of course is it possible to identify a robot? Robots can be tough to take advantage of unless you can identify the number of levels of strategy it has. Sure enough some professionals have identified bots but know their weaknesses and have used it to exploit these cash machines.
It is tough to know how many robots are playing online poker at any given moment but sure enough more will be caught and there is probably a good network of them that are consistently draining out money from bad and unsuspecting players.
Is there anything you can do to protect yourself? It depends on what you do with poker, are you doing it for fun or are trying to make a living from this? If you are doing it for fun then don’t bother thinking about robots and just acknowledge they exist. If you want to do this professionally they are more plentiful at the lower stakes than higher stakes. These are some of the competition you are either going to have to learn how to play against or avoid. Poker tracker will help you identify profitable players and you can just say that any winning player is good enough that you don’t need to play against them.
Just identify good table situations and avoid playing against players that you know are better than you. As for poker robot strategy and tips, that is as far as it goes. Until online poker rooms can track them and block them, you are stick with them.