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[Bayverse Transformers] What are the cognitive abilities of a transformer?

They're introduced and titled a "super advanced race of alien robots", however it seems like their most significant developments are out of their control (their robot 'biology') or something any sentient race could develop in time (space ships, physics-warping tech, laser guns, etc). 

How capable mentally is an individual transformer? Are they a super-computer, or are they just a 'person' with a robot body?

We usually see them interacting just like they're normal human people. We almost never see them using high-tech military strategies like radio or binoculars or grouping up. Heck, most of the time a single injury reduces them to a kicked dog - flailing in pain, without regard to the fact they were just injured and should probably react somehow.
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They seem roughly equivalent to a human, with all of the benefits and drawbacks that entails. Some of them are smart and noble, like Prime, some of them are greedy and evil, like Megatron, and some of them exist to make dick jokes.

I don't think it's canon in the Bayverse, but in the TV show and comics, Mechanus created the Transformers to be *life*, not to be super tailored to a specific task, so it makes sense that they have all of the flaws and weaknesses of a human.