I'm a beekeeper, and I have a home-made bee escape to clear bees out of boxes that are ready to be harvested. I put it between the honey super and the brood box, and as it gets colder at night, bees move downward to keep the brood warm. The escape has a series of baffles that the bees can only navigate in one direction, so they're unable to get back into the honey super.

The only reason it works is that bees will consistently turn in one direction when they're faced with an obstacle, very much like a maze-traversing algorithm. Luckily my bee escape doesn't assume right or left handedness of the bees :)

The design exists online and has been around for ages, so beekeepers at least were already aware of this behavior.