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A distributed device management system. The system includes a set of distributed devices, such as point-of-sale devices. The devices are managed by a remote host.

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A distributed device management system. The system includes a set of distributed devices, such as point-of-sale devices. The devices are managed by a remote host. hieving the connection between said objects; wherein said connection data is selected from among a plurality of sets of connection data

A distributed device management system. The system includes a set of distributed devices, such as point-of-sale devices. The devices are managed by a remote host. hieving the connection between said objects; wherein said connection data is selected from among a plurality of sets of connection data recorded in a file. 12. The robot according to claim 11, wherein said connection data identifies the objects to be connected and the format of the data to be exchanged. 13. The robot according to claim 12, wherein said connection data is described in the form of text data. 14. A robot having replaceable parts to enable the robot configuration to be changed, the overall actions of said robot being controlled by software containing objects through inter-object data communication, said robot comprising: an object manager for connecting objects so as to enable exchange of data between the objects; and connection data supplying means for supplying said object manager with connection data necessary for achieving the connection between said objects; wherein said object manager operates in accordance with said connection data to break connection between objects and then to re-connect objects, thereby revising said software. 15. The robot according to claim 14, wherein the software is revised to change the mode of electrical power consumption. 16. The robot according to claim 14, further comprising component detecting means for detecting said parts, wherein said connection data is supplied in accordance with the results of the detection performed by said component detecting means, whereby the revision of the software is achieved in accordance with the robot configuration. 17. The robot according to claim 16, wherein: said component detecting means includes a robot serial bus operative to receive data from said parts; and said connection data supplying means comprises robot system software including a virtual robot object operatively coupled to said robot serial bus and retrieving connection information indicative of a current robot configuration, and a design robot object for receiving said connection information from said virtual robot object and supplying said connection data in accordance with said connection information to said object manager. 18. A robot having a configuration that is changeable via replacement of parts thereof, comprising: part detection means for detecting parts attached to said robot, and outputting a part detection result in accordance with said detection; information storage means for storing information corresponding to said part detection result for each configuration obtained by replacement of said parts; software changing means for changing robot-controlling software in correspondence with a changed configuration, based on a comparison of said part detection result with the information stored in said information storing means; and control means for controlling general robot operations in accordance with said changed software. 19. The robot according to claim 18, wherein said software comprises objects and said software changing means changes said software corresponding to said changed configuration by changing said objects based on said comparison. 20. The robot according to claim 18 wherein: said software includes: configuration-dependent software dependent on a change in said configuration; and configuration-independent software independent of a change in said configuration; and said software changing means changes software corresponding to said changed configuration by changing said configuration-dependent software. 21. The robot according to claim 18, wherein information corresponding to said part detection result is written in a text data format. 22. A robot having a configuration that is changeable via replacement of parts thereof, comprising: robot system software running on processing circuitry within said robot, and including a virtual robot object operatively coupled to said parts and operative to detect parts attached to said robot, and to output a part detection result in accordance with said detection; an information stor