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I haven't worked with it myself, but eros might be a place to look if you're looking for truly minimal ROS installs which can communicate via XML-RPC calls with the ROS network.

There are two other widely used options which allow devices to communicate with a ROS system without using XML-RPC calls. Those are rosserial (typically used on Arduino or other lightweight chips) and rosbridge (typically used in web clients).