The pro teams have huge budgets to throw at anything that is even remotely effective at making a rider more comfortable or transferring power more effectively, so it seems strange that I haven't run across a lot of projectsthat apply modern advanced research topics to road bikes. Maybe I'm just looking in the wrong places.
I guess weight would be a big issue with the Canyon setup, nevermind getting it past the UCI blazers. I have always thought that variable length forks would be interesting on a road bike.
For the track maybe yes maybe no only time will tell. For the real world it's another gadget to go wrong for not much [if any] gain in real terms. Electronic sensors etc and bad weather - not the best combination.
