1. An apparatus for extracting a feature point to recognize an obstacle using a laser scanner, the apparatus comprising: a laser scanner installed at a front of a traveling vehicle and configured to obtain laser scanner data having a plurality of layers in real time; and a controller configured to separate the laser scanner data obtained by the laser scanner into a plurality of layers to extract measurement data present in each layer and determine feature points of the measurement data to classify a type of obstacle based on a plurality of stored feature points.