>>/48483/
Yes and no. Some could be very much like armor  >>/48476/ but less anthropomorph; and some could be "seaters", even less anthropomorph, which could fit in the category you mentioned. But how the authors and illustrators imagined, this humanoid robot form, no.
> skinny dudes are put in (the faction that produces them has a eugenics program going on and a caste system based on it)
Not horses are bred in that universe, but the jockeys. Heh.
They really wrote their fiction around the theme. Cool.