According to a moving robot and a method of controlling the same of the present disclosure, a shape of a ceiling is extracted from an image captured during traveling on the basis of a map generated by detecting an obstacle, a shape of an area corresponding to the shape of the ceiling is extracted, an actual shape of the area and a map to which a detection result of the obstacle is reflected are generated, and a map having a shape close to an actual shape of an indoor shape is provided to a user. Accordingly, the user can easily divide the plurality of areas, can input a correct cleaning command based on the map, and can easily check a current state or a cleaning state of the moving robot for each area.