Monkeys, Nanobots and You.

[Xeram]

Emagged NPC firebots are actually way more deadly than what you just described.

They spray people and send them FLYING back, dealing a fair amount of brute damage and stunning them for a while.

They also instantaneously spray you completely unavoidably if you walk within one tile of them.

If you get caught between a firebot and a wall it will spray you until you die horribly.

Or if you run past it it will hose you down 3 times as you go flying. The stuns stack on top of eachother.