[That's that. She's taken back her familiar and Soundwave can go about on his business again.

Or so he thought, stopping when Minako asked the question. His head tilts slightly to the side at the curious question. Ah, well... He can't actually be surprised by her curiosity. Nobody here is as mechanical as he is. And it's a benign topic, so he doesn't mind answering.]

If they look specifically like me, then no. [As far as he knows anyway. Not a single bot came to mind sharing a similar frame with his.] If you mean that the people on my home planet is mechanical like I am, then the answer is yes.

We are a sapient mechanical species called Cybertronians. We're not robots, if you happened to be thinking that.

[The assumption is more common here than he liked, here especially hence why he brought it up on his own. While Minako isn't alluding anything to that yet, he wants to immediately get that part out of the way.]