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The sensor utilizes a piezoresistive transduction mechanism. It consists of a silicon cantilever with doped piezoresistors at the fixed end and an out-of-plane, high-aspect-ratio SU-8 hair structure attached to the free end. The design, fabrication, theoretical modeling and experimental characterization of the sensor will be presented. The sensor exhibits good sensitivity down to the submm/s range for underwater oscillatory flow. It can also distinguish between flows from different directions. However, the sensor becomes saturated by low frequency noise under strong background flow. In order to detect disturbances under these conditions, the sensors are embedded in an artificial canal structure. The fabrication of the first prototype artificial lateral line canal device will be presented, followed by the fluid-mechanics modeling and experimental validation. 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